Gracie Allen Quotes

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

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

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

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

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.

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

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

Life is about choices, and the grace - or lack thereof - with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone's life.

I learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.

That's the true meaning of being a leader: being able to deal with the consequences and take the responsibility for it. That's who I want to be.