“Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.”
Maxwell Maltz
“Behind every action is a reason; in front of every action is a consequence.”
Christopher Febvre
“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”
Stephen R. Covey
“The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.”
Mark Twain
“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”
Isadora Duncan
“Pre-emptive action today may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future because -- and I have ordered this kind of action -- I don't care how precise your bombs and weapons are, when you set them off innocent people die.”
Bill Clinton
“Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?”
Joseph Butler