Fatal Quotes

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Second guesses in putting are fatal.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.