Ruin Quotes

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett

Reputation, Takes, Five

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Political, Nation

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin

Fine, Eye, Blind

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Life, Worth, Lucky

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams

Mind, Children, May

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski

Lives, Ready, Taken

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
Ambrose Bierce

Country, Republican, Believes

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de Balzac

Business, Hard, Find

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

Deep, Control, Dark

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton

Strength, Patience, Support

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Bad, Evil, Deep

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII

Family, Women, Three

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo

Smart, Judge, Law

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner

Husband, Child, Lives

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Cornelius Vanderbilt

Law, Cheat, Won

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Joseph Addison

Country, Greatness, Heaven

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Stendhal

Men, Power, Eternal

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
Terry Bradshaw

Bad, Team, Attitudes

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Josh Billings

Life, Long, Enough

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart

Great, Someone, Scratch

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Josh Billings

Good, Road, Pay

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil

Him, Happen, Another

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus

Happiness, Free, Shall

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer

Dreams, True, Grateful

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop

Evil, Grow, Destroy

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Edwin Louis Cole

Rebellion, Repentance, Pattern

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

Whose, Nations, Subject

Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson

Life, Reality, Continues

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
Ben Stein

Society, Try, Same

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