Quotes About Outcome

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

He laughs best who laughs last.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.

All is well that ends well.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.

We were worried that our main speaker wouldn't be able to make it tonight. But, fortunately, due to a hole in the prosecution's case . . .

Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

No doing without some ruing.

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Football games aren't won, they're lost.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

If you lose, you're going to be fired, and if you win, you only put off the day you're going to be fired.