Quotes about Consequence

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed trial balloons or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.

We are all sorry when we are discovered. Then we are very sorry.It's not the question if we're sorry. The question is did we draw a lesson? The question is: what are we going to do now, when we're sorry?

The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

If you stick your head in the sand and ignore things that you have the power to change, you can't blame anyone when they don't turn out right!

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.