Outcomes Quotations | Page 5

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

Beliefs help us tap the richest resources deep within us, creating & directing these resources to support our desired outcome

There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.