Disaster Quote by James Stockdale Download Open image “It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.” — James Stockdale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disaster Hero Success
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide,… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
One of the undervalued contributors to Trump's stunning 2016 victory was the masterful performance Pence had in his debate against Hillary Clinton running mate… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know, we can't beat ISIS. We can't do anything. We can't take care of our vets. We can't have good health care. "Obama… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“She was—of course—perfectly normal— quiet and polite and reasonably intelligent and...normal and self destructive and lonely and terrified of every thing And she loved… — Tah the Trickster Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's my goal to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga, but it wouldn't be a disaster if I didn't achieve that. — Mario Gomez Copy Share Image
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
