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Ambition destroys its possessor…

Posted by nabil medawar in Famous Quotes and Sayings, Words of wisdom, tags:
  • Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them — and then you destroy yourself.~ Richard M. Nixon
  • And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.~ The Holy Bible
  • An hour may destroy what an age was building.~ English Proverb
  • Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.~ Voltaire
  • Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak.~ Spanish Proverb
  • Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.~ Samuel Butler
  • Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.~ Marshall Field
  • Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.~ Ann Landers
  • Hate would destroy him who hated.~ Louis L’Amour
  • I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.~ Abraham Lincoln
  • If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.~ Author Unknown
  • If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can swim.~ Swahili Proverb
  • It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.~ Baudouin I
  • It takes two to destroy a marriage.~ Margaret Trudeau
  • Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.~ Senegalese Proverb
  • New arts destroy the old.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.~ Pearl S. Buck
  • Poverty destroys all virtues.~ Indian Proverb
  • Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?~ George Moore
  • Rules and models destroy genius and art.~ William Hazlitt
  • Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.~ George Santayana
  • The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.~ Zedong Mao
  • The miser destroys what he collected.~ Egyptian Proverb
  • The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.~ Susan Sontag
  • The power to tax is the power to destroy.~ John Marshall
  • Time builds castles, and time destroys them.~ Serbian Proverb
  • We’ve learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.~ Omar Nelson Bradley
  • We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.~ Margaret Mead
  • When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.~ William J. Durant
  • Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.~ Traditional Proverb
  • You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.~ Ray Bradbury
  • Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine’s potential with an overdose of stress.~ Harry J. Johnson
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