Quotes About Outcome

The wish is father to the thought" to "The fear is mother of the event.

I had always thought that wringing one's hands was a fictional gesture — the obscure outcome, perhaps, of some medieval ritual; but as I took to the woods, for a spell of despair and desperate meditation, this was the gesture ("look, Lord, at these chains!") that would have come nearest to the mute expression of my mood.

luck, of course, will always play a role, as it does with all strategies

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

In other words, risk-focused studies do not generally give us research-based answers or prevention

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed. It isn't the head, but the stomach that determines [your] fate. —Peter Lynch, Beating the Street

I don't judge the quality of my decisions by the outcome

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

But success and failure reveal nothing about our spirituality.

Well, all's well that ends well, so they say," remarked Mr. Bobbsey,

People didn't get what they deserved, you couldn't hold off bad luck by being good, you couldn't say you earned your good luck. You just got what you got, and did the best you could, and tried not to be afraid of what might happen next.

Te perdi -Dice.- Esa fue mi consecuencia -Cooper

as soon as you tempt fate, it will absolutely come to bite you in the ass.

It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.

In time, the treaty had the opposite of its intended effect.

Striving for perfection is a good and worthwhile effort. Expecting to actually attain perfection can kill you.

The fate of the expedition depended on finding it.

Da Costa was explicit about the dire consequences that would befall the two

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,

Le conditionnel passé, le temps des opportunités manquées.

And in English class, on a test, she wrote, Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things, and received an A.