Own Downfall Quotes

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Our biggest risk is ourselves.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Only our own corruption can destroy us and cause our armed forces to be defeated without fighting.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

We're endangered by our own success.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.