Quotes about Consequences

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad. The desire to save face trumps the desire to make the right call.

No dumping allowed. Trespassers will be violated." I used to laugh every time I drove by the sign. This wasn't a homemade sign. It was a professionally made metal sign posted by a city in Oklahoma (I won't tell you which one). It was even the fancy kind with fluorescent letters that could be easily seen at night.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down.

Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape, Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life?