What goes around comes around

Meaning: Your actions will eventually return to affect you.

Origin: American English expression from the 1970s, related to the concept of karma.

Translations

• French: On récolte ce que l'on sème (literally: You reap what you sow)
• Spanish: Lo que siembras, cosechas (literally: What you sow, you harvest)
• Japanese: 因果応報 (Inga ōhō) (literally: Cause and effect retribution)

More proverbs about Morality

• Don't put all your eggs in one basket — Don't risk everything on one venture.
• Two wrongs don't make a right — Responding to wrongdoing with more wrongdoing is never justified.
• Honesty is the best policy — Being truthful is always the right approach.
• You reap what you sow — Your actions determine your outcomes.
• An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind — Revenge only creates more suffering.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you — Treat people the way you want to be treated.

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