Results Matter Quotes

#1. Results matter! They matter to your credibility.

Stephen Covey

#2. Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.

Russell Simmons

#3. The key to working smarter is knowing the difference between motion and direction. In the final analysis, results are what matter; attendance and activity don't.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

S. N. Goenka

#5. I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

Tony Robbins

#7. It is by no means your past that determines or dictates your present or your future; it is what you think and what you say, which then results in what you feel and what you do.

Miya Yamanouchi

#8. I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

Carly Fiorina

#9. Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Tom Robbins

#10. Choose the things that matter to God. See things as He sees them. Whatever results, that is the best way.

Jason M. Steffens

#11. Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. Changing a planning tool or a method won't create significant change in the results we're getting in our lives - although the implied promise is that it will. It's not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it's questioning the whole assumption of control.

Stephen R. Covey

#13. No matter what it is, you're going to have the bad days, but if you have hope throughout, you won, no matter what the results, Life is so beautiful.

Diem Brown

#14. I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.

Torii Hunter

#15. Believing in yourself truly means trusting your capability to think, learn, do, and deliver better results. In that case, it doesn't matter where you're starting from. As you keep going, you're developing into a better person.

SuccessCoach Nilesh

#16. All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Sai Baba

#17. The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

Ronald Fisher

#18. Every war invariably results in terrible tragedies, immense waste and sinful destruction. All wars, no matter how big or small, how nearby or far away, diminish OUR humanity to a barbaric level.

Takayuki Ishii

#19. I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

Tammy Baldwin

#20. It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

Nathanael West

#21. First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision as a consequence is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but how those decisions were made.

Robert Rubin

#22. The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.

Ralph Abraham

#23. All results no matter how magnificent are infinitesimal when compared to future possibility.

James Arthur Ray

#24. I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

Todd Gitlin

#25. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink

#26. A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.

Albert Hadley

#27. Some of us will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime... I rather have depression that can be treated with a pill and my free will to conquer it; than have a physical illness that results in my demise because no matter what I did I could not conquer it.

Brian Michael Good

#28. No matter what the results, it is my choices that define me. And I will fight for them, even when it seems that failure is inevitable. Perhaps most especially then.

Cat Hellisen

#29. American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Thomas Friedman

#30. Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.

Dave Champion

#31. It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.

Gracia Martore

#32. Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

William James

#33. Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#34. Keep going don't worry about results. If you love it why does it matter?

Dom Kennedy

#35. People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

Peter Senge

#36. Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.

Billy Graham

#37. Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

Robert De Castella

#38. I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results.

Brad Lidge

#39. It's the effort, not the results that matter.

Maria V. Snyder

#40. No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

Doug Dawson

#41. We've tried calling sin "errors" or mistakes" or "poor judgment," but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we've known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.

Billy Graham

#42. Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

#43. Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.

Stephen Hawking

#44. Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Georges Bataille