102 Quotes About Consequence

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity―from insect to animal to human wanderer―stopped to blink, suddenly blinded. Their guiding light had vanished, extinguishing hope in the hearts of many. That little light had mattered, but he knew it not.

Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.

A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention.

Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.

Regardless of our efforts, we have arrived at the inevitable destination of apathy.

Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we’ve created.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.