Life Consequences Quotes

The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.

If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime; it taints the course of life in all its dreams.

There's certain countries that you can't get in if you've got a criminal background record. There's certain jobs in the States that you can't get because you've got a criminal background record. That follows you the rest of your life... and that's something you have to deal with the rest of your life.

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Sometimes you want to experience life, but ultimately, you've got to make sacrifices and choose the right road.

Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.

By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever.