Quotes About Downfall

all cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall, For by this unjust plan they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members and retain only the improvident, unskilled and vicious.

Democracies have a natural tendency to turn against their saviours. It happened to Winston Churchill. It happened to Charles de Gaulle and it happened to Margaret Thatcher. It was not the faults of those great leaders that caused their downfall, but their virtues

Mr. Barbecue-Smith was tossed to the floor.

the rise sets up the fall; the winning sets up the losing

I did not cause the downfall of Jim Crockett Promotions. Not by a long shot.

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

The downfall of aristocratic influence has created an atmosphere of brutality and indifference towards the arts, such that a refined sensibility has nowhere to take refuge.

The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists.

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.

Todo cae por su propio peso, no sé si se entenderá el término caer por su propio peso, imaginaos una estatua hecha de mierda que se hunde lentamente en el desierto, bueno, eso es caer por su propio peso".

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.

El orgullo nunca está lejos de la caída.

Hasta los más hábiles hombres caen, e ignominiosa es su caída cuando en bello ropaje ocultan infames palabras para servir a su avaricia.

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.

Success has ruined many a man.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

The highest places are always slippery: Men's eyes dazzle when they are carried up to them; and falls from them are mortal. Few kings or tyrants, says Juvenal, go down to the grave in peace...

That's the trouble with ambition. It's easy to forget, when you're always looking upwards, that the only way down from the dizzy heights is a long drop.

These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.

Pride Goeth before the fall.

El orgullo va delante de la destrucción, y un espíritu altanero, delante de una caída»

Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route destruction!

Is the thing we love always our downfall? Always our destruction?