Quotes About Outcome

The best possible outcome of marriage was a wealthy, childless widowhood.

All vibes are good in thought, Its the actions of ones thought that predict the status outcome.

I guess that's what happens," Jameson said, his eyes never leaving mine as his lips curled upward, "when you take a very risky gamble.

She came out in a cold sweat when she thought about the future, saying she felt like a coin someone had tossed in the air that might land heads or tails depending on how the pavement lay.

It is finished, is never said of us

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.

If you act rashly, without regard to consequences, you may defeat your purposes.

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The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

What matters is the effect, not the process.

We win because we make it happen, we lose because we let it happen!

You know, a lot of people nowadays believe they're owed a happy ending.

Regardless of the outcome, the decisions linger. As one official put it, "Ethical questions will put scars on your soul that you can never get rid of.

man, two quarters, a twist of a knob, that kid should have fallen into our laps by now!

And I realized that it's not whether you beat God—it's what you have when the fight's over.

And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces—forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum

Success is a side effect of doing the right things in the right time

You can repudiate DESTINY all you want but in the end it wins.

But all he could really do was his best, each moment. That was what mattered most—even more than the final outcome. Because the final outcome wasn't up to him alone.

Yet to imagine this outcome [slavery being impermissible everywhere] as somehow preordained is to be misguided by hindsight...Lincoln got it right when, shortly before his death, he called the result of the war 'astounding.