Ruin Quotes

1011 Ruin quotes by 721 unique authors

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. — William Blake
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper… — Laozi
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility… — Theodore Roosevelt
Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment,… — George Washington
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It… — Winston Churchill
We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again. — James Inhofe
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a… — Bill Toomey
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. — Winston Churchill
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career. — Bob Hope
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty… — Russell Kirk
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk… — Chanakya
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness — Dennis Prager
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. — Rumi
The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay,… — George MacDonald
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening? — Beverly Sills
From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a… — Pearl S. Buck
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your… — John Owen
How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of… — Thomas Hood
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all. — Seth Godin
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. — Isak Dinesen
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. — Jose Rizal
Simplicity of living gives you sensitivity of character. A lot of people told me that leaving L.A. and moving to Volcano (district of the Big… — Jason Scott Lee
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes. — Tennessee Williams

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