Zig Ziglar Quotes

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Speech is the mirror of action.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you live in the chicken house.

Everything is a circle. We are each responsible for our own actions. It will come back.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

I have to live with what I say, or don't say, tens of thousands of times a game.

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.