These downfall quotes will inspire you. Downfall, a sudden fall (as from power, happiness, or a high position) or a loss of power, prosperity, or status.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging downfall quotes, downfall sayings, and downfall proverbs.
Best Downfall Quotes
- “My downfall raises me to infinite heights.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “Someone’s writing down your mistakes, someone’s documenting your downfall.” ~ Nicole Blackman
- “Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball” ~ Jay-Z , Pray downfall quotes
- “He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.” ~ Laozi
- “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
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“Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one’s downfall.” ~ Laozi
- “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
- “Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
- “Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.” ~ Antony Beevor
- “National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.” ~ William E. Gladstone
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“When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “To be too knowing is a downfall.” ~ Laura Linney
- “The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.” ~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser
- “My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.” ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
- “I don’t spend my hours plotting for somebody else’s downfall.” ~ Hillary Clinton
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“Conceit may bring about one’s own downfall.” ~ Aesop
- “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
- “The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don’t blame others for your own inadequacies.” ~ Greg Ginn
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance.” ~ Ruben Blades
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“Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.” ~ Jeremy Gutsche
- “Never practice something you’re good at. All it will lead to is one major strength with many downfalls.” ~ Behdad Sami
- “I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.” ~ Questlove
- “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.” ~ B. H. Liddell Hart
- “In private enterprises, men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.” ~ Tacitus
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“From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.” ~ Fran Lebowitz
- “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
- “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
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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
- “My nemesis – my downfall, if you will – was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.” ~ Jennifer O’Neill
- “A thought may arise: ‘It’s okay now, but it’s going to be different when I step out the door’. Already you are anticipating your downfall. Recognize these as just thoughts. You can just watch them, feel their pull yet observe them as a movement in consciousness. Stay put as formless awareness.” ~ Mooji
- “Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.” ~ Thomas B. Macaulay
- “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
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“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.” ~ Chuck Todd
- “I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it’s the glory and the downfall of your civilization. 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
- “Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that’s their downfall.” ~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
- “Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.” ~ Alan Parry
- “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
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“Your soulmate can also be your downfall. ” ~ Guillaume Musso
- “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.” ~ Kesha
- “Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.” ~ Charles Dow
- “I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.” ~ Richard Armitage
- “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.” ~ Mila Kunis
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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.” ~ Warsan Shire
- “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.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Your very success is what’s going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you’ve developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that’s a good thing.” ~ Leah Remini
- “George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq. Helping to bring about your political downfall will be the most noble accomplishment of my life, and it will bring justice for my son and the hundreds of other brave Americans and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis your lies have killed.” ~ Cindy Sheehan
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“It doesn’t really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I’m not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label’s absolute biggest downfall.” ~ Joe Nichols
- “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.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “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.” ~ E. Digby Baltzell
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“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.” ~ Josh McDowell
- “Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to Carter’s downfall.” ~ Murray Rothbard
- “The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsize, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.” ~ Saul Williams
