Quotes about Consequence

Each life creates endless ripples.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

For every promise, there is price to pay.

A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

It takes two to make an accident.

It was wearisome to contemplate that animate protoplasm, reasonable by courtesy only, shut up in a car by an incomprehensible civilization, taken somewhere, to do a vague something without aim or significance or consequence.

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.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

IF I'D GOTTEN THE JOB I WANTED at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go—and a long way from wherever you expected to go.

Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.

What you wind up regretting aren't the things you do, it's what you don't do that you will never forgive yourself for.

Sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.