Alexander Smith Quotes

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.

At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.

Every movie gets exactly what it deserves.

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Those who are entitled to it get it sooner or later.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

You're going to reap just what you sow

The chickens have come home to roast.