Downfall Quotes

• My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Failure, Height, Infinite

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

  Paul Harvey

  Income, May, Exceed

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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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• 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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• Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

  Aesop

  May, Conceit

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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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• It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Suicide, Running, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

  Greg Ginn

  Predator, Use, Blame

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• I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.

  Phil Jackson

  Thinking, Patient Person, Errors

  "Sunday Conversation: Phil Jackson". Interview with Jim Gray, www.espn.com. October 3, 2005.

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

  Nicole Blackman

  Mistake, Writing

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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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• I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

  Roy Harper

  Giving, Inspired, Poet

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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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• Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Hero, Artist, Blood

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 5, 1930.

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• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  Phil Hartman

  Careers, Progress, Remarkable

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• Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

  Greg Peterson

  Mother, Nature, Jobs

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• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Mean, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

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• My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Trying, Nemesis, Ifs

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• I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

  Carrie Underwood

  Fighting, Chocolate, Battle

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• A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

  Bear Grylls

  Pride, Men, Support

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

  Anna Benson

  Giving Up, People, Effort

  "How 'Baseball Wives' star Anna Benson keeps 12-year marriage interesting". www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Easter, Party, Thinking

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.412, Vintage

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• I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

  Ruben Blades

  Education, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Not everyone enthusiastic about the future of TV". Bangor Daily News, February 18, 1993.

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