Richard Eyre Quotes

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.

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

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

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.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

What's important is for us to be aware that our actions have repercussions.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

My father said, '10 minus one is zero.' It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn't mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I'm doing. I don't want to frame myself.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.