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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Family, Happiness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Emotion, Natural

  "Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, January 1968.

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• Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.

  Stephen Covey

  Principles, Negative, Harmony

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Simple, Substance

  Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (2011). “The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics”, p.458, Anchor

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• In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church's supreme act of adoration.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Son, Holy Eucharist, Catholic

  Alcuin Reid, Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Vegetarianism, Enlightenment, Meat

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• Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

  Lewis Gordon

  Decision, Tides, Instinct

  "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.

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• The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.

  Caroline Myss

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Adventure

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• Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

  Gustave de Molinari

  War, Liberty, Natural

  Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.59, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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