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"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." »John Ruskin
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"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind." »George Washington Allston
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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"Suffering is the necessary consequence of sin, just as when you eat a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues." »Burmese Proverb
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"How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?" »Ingrid Weir
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"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." »Stanley Milgram
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"Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital." »Aldous Huxley
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"Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence." »William Shakespeare
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"Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining." »Unknown
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"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again." »David Viscott
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"It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word." »Alexander Smith
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"There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves." »George Washington
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"Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions." »Helen Hayes
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"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." »Jim Rohn
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"The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world." »A. S. Neill, Summerhill
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"In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash." »John Berger
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"Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking." »R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
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"Austin Powers No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound" »Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
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"Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes" »Abraham Harold Maslow
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"Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise." »Cyril Connolly
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin." »Katharine Butler Hathaway
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"you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket" »George Orwell
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"Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive." »C. C. Colton
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""To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything. "" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life." »Joseph Addison
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