Action and Reaction Quotes

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny.

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You never know what it’s going to look like on the other side, but you’ll see it eventually if you keep your eyes open.

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.