Quotes About Outcome

It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.

My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs ... They thought that just because they were smashing eggs they must be making an omelette

It's cause and effect, Vernon

Well, we've been waiting for years...we wait longer. Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas on to life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas. We drive ourselves with a formula, like a machine.

when any action in our day-to-day life is motivated by some expectant result, or by what only appears to be a real condition or circumstance in our life, that expectant result is very likely to be dashed to pieces.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.

how different everything would have been "if they had been victorious in life who have won victory in death.

W)hen you're playing with fire you've got to deal with the heat...And fire ain't particular about who it burns.

Sometimes the difference between geniuses and jerks hinges on whether their ideas turn out to be right.

It would be better to miss than to turn out the wrong thing.

And the Scripture assures me that at the last day we shall not be examined by what we thought, but what we did . . 

That is why development cannot be seen purely as an economic affair, but rather as an overall social process which is dependent upon the outcome of man's efforts to deal with his natural environment.

I would rather be certain of a good result than hopeful of a great one.

What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end

You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

Becoming the observer (step back) you begin to live in process, trusting where our source is taking you. You begin to detach from the outcome. That detachment allows you to stop fighting and allows things to just come to you; you no longer make things happen but allow them to show up. The fight is gone!

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

When the government intervenes to help, whether in the European welfare state or in America's more diluted version, it not only diminishes our responsibility for the desired outcome, it enfeebles the institutions through which people live satisfying lives.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

If I win, I win, and if I lose, I win because my responsibility is to obey God and to leave the consequences up to him.