Quotes about Outcome

Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.

If you have firm trust in God, the success that comes to you will always be that which is most useful for you whether it appears good or bad in your private judgment.

It is what we fear that happens to us.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions

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

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.

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

If you don't have a personal definition of success, chances are you will succeed at the wrong thing. You'll get to the end of your life and realize that you spelled success wrong. And if you spell it wrong, you'll get it wrong.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Our task is to focus on our individual callings in engaging with the world, to trust that others are following theirs too, and to leave to God the masterminding of the grand outcome.

Hope for the believer is not a dream of what could be, but a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that shapes his life.