38 Debacle Quotes

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There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat. — Duke of Wellington

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away. - Robert Kiyosaki

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away. — Robert Kiyosaki

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself. — Floyd Patterson

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive. — Steven Spielberg

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. — Joe Paterno

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy

Incompetence is the true crisis. — Albert Einstein

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee — Robert K. Greenleaf

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. — Klemens Von Metternich

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. — Edwin Markham

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. — Michel de Montaigne

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. — Horace

If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover. — Miyamoto Musashi

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. — Agatha Christie

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More Debacle Quotes

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. — Milan Kundera

VAERS is telling the story of a national biological product safety debacle with just the tip of the iceberg in terms of reports. CDC had never read or analyzed the vignettes including ~1150 Americans who died on same day of injection. — Peter A. McCullough

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle. — Chuck D

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? — Tina Brown

It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive. — Mark Levin

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be. — Joe Biden

Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated. — Amy Jo Martin

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles. — Chuck Grassley

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau. — J Harlen Bretz

In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions. — Thomas Sowell

I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair. — Viswanathan Anand

I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle. — Richelle Mead

The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide. — Charlie Cook

There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches. — Bruce Riedel

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That's because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain. — Robert Kiyosaki

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system. — Bill Ayers

Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy. — Bill McKibben

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened. — Barbara Mikulski

I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle of a year and a half back and said, "We want to de-fund Planned Parenthood," he said, "Not going to happen." Those apparently were more or less his exact words. — Anna Quindlen

Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be. — Keri Hulme

In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct. — Richard W. Fisher

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber. — Norman Mailer

I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza. — Helen Thomas

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