Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?

—Gary Ryan Blair

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

—Goethe

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

—Norman Cousins

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

—Josiah Stamp

Master your choices, or become the slave of their consequences.

—Michael Rawls

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

—Japanese proverb

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Consequences are unpitying.

—George Eliot

Every great decision creates ripples — like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

—Ben Aaronvitch

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

—T.S. Eliot

Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?

—Isabelle Eberhardt