Fatal Quotes

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

Success, Courage, Failure

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde

Great, Dangerous, Sincerity

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Moderation, Excess

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

Change, Failure, Might

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Living, Getting

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

Learning, Ignorance, Greatest

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner

Peace, Knowledge, Live

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden

Success, Courage, Failure

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

Rich, Poor, Between

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Real, Leaving, Idea

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Happiness, True

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage, Weather, Wind

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke

Religion, Nothing

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.
Agatha Christie

Justice, Put, Often

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

War, Win, Enter

That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford

Life, Beauty, Truth

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken

Life, Mistakes, Human

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler

Work, God, Satisfied

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin

History, Made, Often

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf

Simple, Woman, Manly

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams

Time, While, Hospital

Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster

Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster

Literature, Reverence

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

Peace, Human, Whole

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka

Success, Failure, Permanent

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
Neil Gaiman

Life, Comparison, Disease

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper

Pleasure, Egg, Laid

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Will Durant

Certainty, Inquiry

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
Terry Pratchett

Medical, Help, Someone

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