44 Demote Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous demote quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational demote quotes. Hopefully, these demote quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your demote knowledge!
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Famous Demote Quotes
If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place — Attila the Hun
We salute the rank not the man — Richard Winters
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. — Sun Tzu
When placed in command, take charge. — Norman Schwarzkopf
Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall — Kyuzo Mifune
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. — Jewish Proverbs
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. — Quentin Crisp
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. — Confucius
Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you. — Boonaa Mohammed
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. — Niccolo Machiavelli
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. — Aldous Huxley
Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach. — Scott Hall
Short Demote Quotes
- Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life! — Tony Gaskins
- History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. — Malcom X
- Promote yourself, but do not demote another. — Sayings
- The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted. — Paulina Porizkova
- Promote yourself but do not demote another. — Israel Salanter
- Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on. — Nick Denton
- I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy — Alison Bechdel
- You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate. — Bill Watterson
People Writing About Demote
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Attila the Hun |
12 | 1526 |
 Sun Tzu |
454 | 6304 |
 Norman Schwarzkopf |
59 | 1218 |
 Kyuzo Mifune |
9 | 250 |
 Jewish Proverbs |
43 | 28 |
 Marcus Tullius Cicero |
1036 | 10824 |
More Demote Quotes
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections. — Fred Barnes
Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable. — Miles Franklin
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. — Alan Clark
The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down. — John Ortberg
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them. — Marilyn Monroe
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. — Daniel Dennett
I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter. — John Green
You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said. — Richelle Mead
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way. — John Knowles
The thing about The Departed, the x-factor that people can't quite put their finger on, is that it deals clearly with class and accent all these things that are fundamental to Boston, but previously anomalous or even prohibited in demotic American films. — William Monahan
In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life. — Paul Newman
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence. — Plato
How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do? — Andrew Manis
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