Actions Have Consequences Quotes

• A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Happiness, Being Happy, Attitude

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• The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

  Gerda Lerner

  Choices, Undone, Made

  Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

  Holly Lisle

  Motivational, Knowing Who You Are, Firsts

  Holly Lisle (1992). “Fire in the Mist”, Baen Books

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• Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Doe

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• To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

  Sister Souljah

  Real, Believe, Men

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• Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

  Marianne Williamson

  Karma, Mean, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 03, 2011

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• But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Fate, People, World

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

  Gerda Lerner

  Knowledge, Past, Choices

  Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Actions have consequences.

  Morton Blackwell

  Action, Consequence

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• No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'.

  Michael Grant

  Believe, Thinking, Decision

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• All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, Judging, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

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• To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

  China Mieville

  Mean, Reality, Choices

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• All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

  Kenneth L. Woodward

  Guilt, Reconciliation, Action

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