Karl Rove Quotes

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

There is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Successful parties create their own monsters.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

He who is content with a moderate victory is always most successful; for those who would more than conquer, commonly lose.

Policy remedies tend to have unfortunate side effects.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

The cure can be worse than the illness

There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you.

Almost every achievement contains within its success the seeds of a future problem.

Fame isn't something I signed up for, it's just a by-product of what I wanted to do.

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

In success be moderate.