Facing Consequences Quotes

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

If something sucks, I've always been completely vocal about it, and I've been punished many, many times because of that. But I don't think I'd be in the spot I'm in right now if I wasn't me. I've always just been me.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.