Decline Quotes

Who does not grow, declines.

Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.