Downfall Quotes

• My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Failure, Height, Infinite

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• I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready.

  Donnis

  Way, Ready, Could Have Been

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

  Jay-Z

  Balls, Praying, Bounce

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• When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Getting Back Up

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• I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hours

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• Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

  Nicole Blackman

  Mistake, Writing

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• Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

  Michael Bassey

  Negative, Praying, Standing

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• You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Successful, Rocks, Sea

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• He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

  Laozi

  Pride, Honor, Wealth

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• Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

  Laozi

  Pride, Taoism, Titles

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• To be too knowing is a downfall.

  Laura Linney

  Knowing

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• A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Writing, Careers

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love Is, Numbers, Firsts

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• We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

  Joko Beck

  Blessing, Thinking, Errors

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• The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Diets

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.303, Vintage

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• National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

  William E. Gladstone

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

  Speech in Plumstead, London, November 30, 1878.

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• When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

  Paul Harvey

  Income, May, Exceed

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• Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

  Leon Uris

  Real, Joy, Rooms

  Leon Uris (1977). “Trinity”

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• Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

  Aesop

  May, Conceit

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• Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

  Jeremy Gutsche

  Complacency, Architecture

  Jeremy Gutsche (2009). “Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change”, Gotham

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• The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Humanity, Lines, Straight Lines

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Andreas Hirsch (2011). “Art of the green path”, Prestel Pub

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• My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Noise, Made, Satisfied

  "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by A. S. Kline, (Book XXVIII, Ch. 2), 1848 - 1850.

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• Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.

  Dwight Longenecker

  Hero, Wings, Ideas

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• Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

  Antony Beevor

  Leader, Political, Political Leaders

  Antony Beevor (2003). “The Fall of Berlin 1945”, p.30, Penguin

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• I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

  Questlove

  Artist, Celebrate, Feels

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