Top 59 Consequences Quotes That You Should Know

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You have to take responsibility for your actions. With that in mind, check out the top 59 consequences quotes.

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#59 – 50. Consequences Quotes

59. The eagle was killed with an arrow made with its own feathers. – Armenian

58. Mess with the bull and one usually gets the horns. – Latin American saying

57. It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. – Sir Josiah Stamp

56. For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

55. While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. – Stephen R. Covey

54. Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. – George Eliot

53. One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed. – Aesop

52. The frog enjoys itself in water but not in hot water. – African proverb Wolof Tribe

51. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences. – Robert G. Ingersoll

50. Through the law of cause and effect we choose our destiny. Moreover, we are our own prophets for we constantly project our future state by the seeds we plant in the present. – Cheryl Canfield

#49 – 40. Consequences Quotes

49. Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. – Norman Cousins

48. Hurry is good only for catching flies. – Russian Proverb

47. Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it. – Harry Browne

46. All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. – Reinhold Niebuhr

45. Little leaks sink the ship. – Ben Franklin

44. Bad gains are true losses. – Ben Franklin

43. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. A guilty conscience needs no accuser. – English Proverb

41. Liars often set their own traps. – Aesop

40. Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. – George Bernard Shaw

#39 – 30. Consequences Quotes

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

38. Let the punishment fit the crime. – W.S. Gilbert

37. You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences. – W. Somerset Maugham

36. Depend on others and you will go hungry. – Nepalese Proverb

35. The fat is in the fire. – John Heywood

34. What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. – Swedish Proverb

33. All successful men have agreed in one thing — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. He that lies down with the dogs riseth with fleas. – George Herbert

30. The proof is in the pudding. – Miguel de Cervantes

#29 – 20. Consequences Quotes

29. It’s no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone. – John Heywood

28. No sleep, no dreams. – Korean Proverb

27. Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. – T.S. Eliot

26. Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes. – Lawson Purdy

25. We will seek the truth and will endure the consequences. – Charles Seymour

24. Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. – William James

23. Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. – Robert Louis Stevenson

22. With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

21. Empty sacks will never stand upright. – Italian Proverb

20. Medicine left in the container can’t help. – Yoruba (West African)

#19 – 10. Consequences Quotes

19. All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. – Lawrence Lessig

18. Depend on your walking stick; not on other people. – Japanese Proverb

17. There are no rewards or punishments — only consequences. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

16. The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. – Thomas Henry Huxley

14. You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. – Booker T. Washington

13. But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences sooner or later. – Lydia M. Child

12. Conscience makes cowards of us all. – William Shakespeare

11. It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect. – Thomas Troward

10. Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. – Robert Louis Stevenson