Natural Consequences Quotes

• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Nature

  'Some Reasons Why' (1881) pt. 8 'The New Testament' in 'The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll' (1915) vol. 2, p. 315

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• Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Responsibility, Choices, Express Yourself

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• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata'

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• Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Law, Choices, Natural

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Yoga

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

  Norman Cousins

  Motivational, Wisdom, Entrepreneur

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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

  Josiah Stamp

  Integrity, Responsibility, Community

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• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Self Confidence, Mind, Acting

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Advice, Trying, Suggestions

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

  Nikola Tesla

  Pride, Community, Understanding

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

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• Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Fighting, Anxiety

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• Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

  Epictetus

  Natural, Fulfillment, Doing The Right Thing

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• Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2016

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• To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

  Henry Cloud

  People, Behavior, Natural

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2008). “Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.39, Zondervan

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• We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Mirrors, Causes

  Source: www.chicagonow.com

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• I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mother, Children, Real

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Because of the expensive system and the competition among various groups, democracy needs a lot of money. As a natural consequence it becomes the slave of the great Jewish international finance which subjugates it by subvention. In this fashion the fate of a people is given into the hands of a caste of bankers.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Fashion, Fate, Hands

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.372, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

  Burt Rutan

  Risk, Innovation, Aversion

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

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• Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

  Ian Caldwell

  Men, Perfection, Long

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• Many people functionally share this belief that work has no greater meaning than the paycheck it provides. A natural consequence of this faith commitment is the belief it's okay to do mediocre work so that in your free time you can enjoy your true passions.

  David Kim

  Passion, Commitment, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sweet, Speech, Natural

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• One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Ambition, Evil, Tasks

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.114

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• In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Jealousy, Art, Hatred

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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