Quotes with consequences

Quotes 41 till 60 of 87.

  • Ben Horowitz In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Aldous Huxley Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Troward It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Paine It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bo Bennett It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Swami Brahmananda Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Augustus Hare Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Bernard Mandeville People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • George Eliot Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Noam Chomsky Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bruce Barton Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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