Result Quotes

We all want the results of our hard work quickly, but time plays its part.  

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.

I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.