Quotes About Outcome

In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards.

Not scoring in the red zone and turning it over, man, that gets you beat.

He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.

All will come out in the washing.

Decisions determine destiny.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.

You can only predict things after they've happened.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect.

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Though men determine, the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.

The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.

This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

In everything one must consider the end.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.