Outset Quotes

102 quotes by 90 authors

Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated… — Sam Shoemaker
All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression. — Milan Kundera
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? — Van Wyck Brooks
Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade. — Richard Neal
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. — Rollo May
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was… — Carl Bernstein
I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of… — Muhammad Asad
I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public… — John Garamendi
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven… — Peter Senge
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. — Publilius Syrus
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then… — Andre Maurois
It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't… — Mark Batterson
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. — Livy
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought… — Alan Moore
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. — Tom Peters
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. — Dan Rather

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90 authors contributed a total of 102 Outset Quotes, led by these top contributors: