Consequences Of Our Actions Quotes

“Something being over is not the same as something never having happened.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can’t be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You have the freedom to choose, but you’re not free from the consequences of those choices.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“You are free to the choice that you want, but you are not free from the consequences of that choice. That choice you make today may break or make your family in future.”
― Itayi Garande, Broken Families: How to get rid of toxic people and live a purposeful life

“In the field, though, the causes were immediate. A moment of carelessness or bad judgment or plain stupidity carried consequences that lasted forever.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“When you don’t face the consequences, there are consequences for that, too.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“I must bear the consequences as I deserve!”
― Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

“For every action, there is always a reaction and consequences that follow.”
― Germany Kent

“Cancel culture is a term bounced around by people afraid of accountability. But freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.”
― Monisha Rajesh

“What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?”
― Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

“Every action that we take exacts a cost and produces consequences. Nothing can be undone.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Everyone who breathes has problems; it’s how the world keeps spinning. Life always brings us problems, and if it doesn’t, we create some. Which makes them worse in my conception, since they are personal consequences. And the last time I checked, I was still breathing.”
― Ivy Oakes, What if Stars Don't Die

“The real war happened when you weren't looking.”
― Jim Butcher, The Warrior

“Always think of your overall objective and the consequences of every action, no matter how small it may be.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Defensive Living: The Other Side of Self-Defense

“Our daily routines influence the lives of people and animals halfway across the world, and some personal gestures can unexpectedly set the entire world ablaze, as happened with the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, which ignited the Arab Spring, and with the women who shared their stories of sexual harassment and sparked the #MeToo movement.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“When you don’t face consequences…there are consequences for that, too.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Never make crucial decisions when angry. The rage that clouds judgement fades and only its consequences linger thereafter.”
― Stewart Stafford

“[Faulkner]"The past is never dead. It isn't even past." In an attempt to remind his sons that every action had a consequence...and that terrible truth had plagued Red and his brother all through adolescence. Very street race through McKee's Rocks, every skipped class, every rock thrown into the glass of old factory buildings, every girl he ever touched--Red thought of Faulkner.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains

“When you don't understand the consequences for your acts, how can you be blamed for them?”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“Fortunately, time-travel does not exist. With it, the human race would try to solve past mistakes in isolation, erase any knowledge gleaned from making them, and create a chain reaction of unforeseen consequences. These could destroy the past, along with the present and future simultaneously. Time itself could become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.”
― Stewart Stafford

“He was tired of pretty! Pretty had a horrible habit of spitting out babies.”
― C. Mack Lewis , Black Market Angels

“What a Man SAYS-----and What a Man THINKS-----IS TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!”
― HATTIE MCDANIEL, Greatly Beloved STAR of GONE WITH THE WIND

“The five minutes of kindness you showed her is going to help thousands of others. And that only takes into account the past day. Despair and pain were averted. Loss and tragedy thwarted. Do you think you haven't struck a blow for the light, Warrior?”
― Jim Butcher, The Warrior

“Everything you do today will impact your tomorrow.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Actions have consequences. So does inaction.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“You may speak freely but there are often consequences.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Don’t confuse selfishness and stupidity with malice. People seldom consider the consequences of their impulsive actions.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Facing the consequences of one’s actions is difficult at the best of times. Facing the consequences of the actions of others is an unfortunate side effect to life, vastly indefensible, but it happens all too often nonetheless.”
― E.V. Drake, The Scribemaster Chronicles

“I believe that people who take unscrupulous shortcuts in the pursuit of their ideals end up destroying lives, including their own.”
― Torres and Firsht, Tell Me Your Plans: A riveting novel of love and ambition

“Sit on the shore while everything else goes on by you, and get through the low-level anxiety and the boredom and the feeling that you've already seen it all. That's a good time to learn. Here's what's there to see. Everything we do and don't do makes a wake, a legion of waves and troughs that pound the shores at the edges of what we mean, grinding away on the periphery of what we know. They go on, after the years in which we lived our individual lives are long passed. If we don't learn that simple, devastating, and redeeming detail of being alive-that what we do, all the jangle of our declarations and defeats, lasts longer than we ourselves do, that the past isn't over-then the parade of our days stands to indict much more than it bequeaths. This is something that we have to learn now. Many of us count on our best intent winning the day or getting us off the hook of personal or ecological consequence. It hasn't, and it won't.”
― Stephen Jenkinson , Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul