Quotes about Outcome

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Remember, it's the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.

I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.

The leading cause of failure is mismanaged success. And the leading cause of success is well-managed failure.

Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.

And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

Finally, there are numerous choices and ways that seem good, but their final outcome is sorrow, misery, loss, and death (see Proverbs 14:12). Think of it: our enemy, his servants, and his ways—all of which ultimately seek our demise—are all disguised as good. Scripture doesn't say they can be disguised, but rather that they are disguised. So do not miss this: usually, what is most dangerous to you will not appear as blatant evil. Rather, it will mask itself as good. In