Bottom Quotes

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line.

Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again.

In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden.

There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

The real truth was taken by pirates and is at the bottom of the ocean.

You will have to go deep to find it.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits.

That's the bottom line.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Your bottom line starts with your front line.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself;

and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

I think space exploration is very important.

I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening.

That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom.

I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.

I was born upon thy bank, river,My blood flows in thy stream,And thou meanderest foreverAt the bottom of my dream.

We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.

There is no gardening without humility.

Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.