Quotes About Downfall

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

God is only as far as we imagine Him to be. It's our fleshly desire not to run to Him that is ultimately our downfall.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

Greed has always been humanity's downfall

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.

En el momento en el que la autocomplacencia se instala, las cosas empiezan a ir mal y casi siempre conduce a la perdición.

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

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.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

I believe if you become complacent about your work, it leads to a downfall.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

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.

Failure has gone to his head.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.