Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Every person's every action has an effect.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.

You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Change begets change.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Everything we do affects other people.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Things always happen in series.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Everything is a reaction.