42 Outcome Quotes

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.

'He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.'

...in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.

I didn't die nor win.

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

90 percent of putts that fall short don't go in.

What a silly question! What a silly person you are! Hezbollah is winning the war; you can see on the other half of the screen. Hezbollah is more popular today in Lebanon amongst Christians, amongst Sunnis, amongst Shiite, amongst all Arabs, amongst all Muslims that it has ever been. It's Israel who's lost the war, and Bush and Blair for politically organizing the war, who've lost politically. This is a defeat of Bush and Blair and Israel. Everybody but you can see it!

Let's meet and either do or die.

In war the result is never final.

In the early days of the DCC I preferred to let the proponents do their thing and then see how it all worked out in the end. Now we are pretty close to the end.

'The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination.' [16]

'One, two and three, he got him, no he didn't' (often suffixed with 'I can't believe he didn't get him')

Given three strikes, the truth will out.

Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

Withhold no sacrifice, begrudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe, all will be well.

'Let it be so.'

All is well that ends well.

But always what we have taken in hand, the same we have achieved. (ch. 17)

The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs.

'It all comes down to nothing...'

'History has no rules, only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts and virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief.' ?( p.528)

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world - not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things - work out rather beautifully.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

I think I know what happens.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Nothing good ever comes of violence

Ted likes his meat dead, enough said