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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
#9 – 1. Consequences Quotes
9. A tree falls the way it leans. – Walloon Proverb
8. When anger rises, think of the consequences. – Confucius
7. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan
6. Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. – Jeremy Taylor
5. You can’t buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. – Chinese Proverb
4. A horse may run quickly but it cannot escape its tail. – Russian proverb
3. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. – Alfred A. Montapert
2. He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. – R. Taverner
1. Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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