Downfall Quotes

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I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

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

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

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

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

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.

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

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

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

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

I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.

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.

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.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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.

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

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

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

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

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.

And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

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

You are my sweetest downfall.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

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.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.

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

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.

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

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

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.