Consequence of Actions Quotes

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

Everything we do has consequences.

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

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Anyone who's been in my court knows my maxim: 'If you make them, you pay for them!'

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

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

Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.

Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.

I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Never scorn the connection between deeds and their results

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

I know if I do something wrong, it's going to be all over the news.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.