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Definition of Fatal

Fatal

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.

Foreboding death or great disaster.

Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

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Fatal Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert Spencer

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

That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Will Durant

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

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

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
Mikhail Bakunin

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Tse-Tung

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

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

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula

Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster

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Fatal Translations

fatal in German is schlimm, schwerwiegend
fatal in Italian is letale
fatal in Latin is letalis
fatal in Spanish is mortal

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