Quotes About Outcome

It is, of course, merely a truism to say that war, like other social or political evils, is the outcome of the bad management of human society, which is, in its turn, due to certain errors or deficiencies. But our task is to discern the sort of error or deficiency.

Do you think luck only lasts so long, and then lets a person down?

the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Everything happened exactly as I had intended it shouldn't.

Don't you think God can work however he chooses?" "I believe God worked, and the rest is up to us.

There's always a series of events that lead up to that one moment where all is lost.

I've dug this grave myself. I guess I have no choice but to lie down in it.

Cowardice has its own rewards

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Schuyler knew that one day it would come to this. That she would have to lose one to have the other one. That this game would have consequences.

Y]ou can't control everything. Anything, really. Like the food we've been making. We can follow the recipe exactly as your grandmother wrote it, do everything exactly--or almost exactly--as she had, and the dish can come out so-so instead of amazing. Or it can come out amazing when you were expecting very little.

We cannot (and have no business trying to) control anyone's emotions, mind, or choices. We cannot control the outcome of events. We cannot control life. Some of us can barely control ourselves. People

We cannot (and have no business trying to) control anyone's emotions, mind, or choices. We cannot control the outcome of events. We cannot control life. Some of us can barely control ourselves.

Control is an illusion. It doesn't work. We cannot control alcoholism. We cannot control anyone's compulsive behaviors—overeating, sexual, gambling—or any of their behaviors. We cannot (and have no business trying to) control anyone's emotions, mind, or choices. We cannot control the outcome of events.

a planner-the sort of person who could size up a situation and take control and be rewarded with a good outcome.

When I'm patient, things usually work out for the best in the end.

But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board

it [living purposefully] entails taking responsibility for consciously creating goals, identifying the actions necessary to achieve the, making sure our behavior is in alignment with our goals, and paying attention to the outcome of our actions so that we see whether they are leading us where we want to go.

One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.

Everyone should realize that today the average person lives to be about eighty years of age, the first twenty to twenty-five of which are used to either prepare oneself educationally — or not. For those who prepare well, about sixty years shall follow to reap the benefits; but for those who fail to prepare, there are sixty years to suffer the consequences.

It was, predictably, a morning ceremony, for nothing good comes of endeavours undertaken when the sun is in decline

What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen.

The practical distinction among passions comes as regards their success: some passions lead to success in what is desired; others, to failure. If you pursue the former, you will be happy; if the latter, unhappy.