Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. — George S. Patton
Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself. — Swami Vivekananda
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. — Bryan Adams
When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. — Will Rogers
No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. — Doug Horton
A mug keeps going to the well until it breaks eventually. — Hungarian Proverbs
If you ever find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. — American Proverbs
The higher you climb, the heavier you fall. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Hitting Bottom Image Quotes
Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
Hitting Rock Bottom Quotes
As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed. — Banana Yoshimoto
Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel. — Jill Shalvis
I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system. — Mariah Carey
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation. — Francine Rivers
I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again. — Maria Sharapova
We think in our society today that the way people change is that they have to have a deep desire to change or that the way they change is they have to hit rock bottom. But neither of those things is true. — Andy Andrews
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets. — George Best
I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet. — Maureen McCormick
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
One good thing about music. When it hits you, you feel no pain.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Fight Club Quotes
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. — Chuck Palahniuk
I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good. — Tom Felton
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. — Chuck Palahniuk
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives." — Chuck Palahniuk
The ambition of this football club is very clear. You have to fight for trophies and be in Europe. The rest is not good enough. — Mikel Arteta
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. — Chuck Palahniuk
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag:
The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods,
The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
Or the slugs that ignite, through the night,
By the dawn early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe? — RZA
Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names. — Chuck Palahniuk
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. — Chuck Palahniuk
Rock Bottom Quotes
It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back. — Demi Lovato
You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages — John Piper
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain
I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box. — Meat Loaf
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. — J. K. Rowling
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. — Alanis Morissette
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says - "Oh crap, she's up"
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water. — Fisher Ames
For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul. — Athol Fugard
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. — Henry Ward Beecher
When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment. — Seth Klarman
I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container. — Brian Regan
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. — Anonymous
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! — Brad Pitt
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. — Hunter S. Thompson
Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom. — Mitt Romney
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Chuck Palahniuk
If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line. — Derek Jeter
Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO! — Chuck Palahniuk
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. — Jonah Lomu
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones. — China Mieville
You rarely see one punch kill anybody. I mean, Davey Moore died, the first fight I ever worked for the title, my guy fought and was getting killed, and he hit Davey Moore. Davey Moore went down. There was no bottom rope to it. I then put bottom rope to it, when I got in power. Hit his head. One blow, hit his head and died. — Ferdie Pacheco
We have hit bottom and are on the upswing. — James J. Davis
I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road. — Brian Welch
Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win. — Alex Rodriguez
Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me. — Dave Ramsey
A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and I feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back. — Tennessee Williams
I don't feel lonely. No no no. I feel like I'm jumping in a well that has no bottom, and at some point I know I'll hit bottom. I never put a time limit on it. I'm oblivious to anything except that which I'm doing. — Lawrence Schiller
When you hit bottom, the only place left to go is up. — Tim Walters
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure - something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need. — Warren Bennis
I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break. — Brooke Burns
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office. — Walter F. Mondale
Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for her, bottom was an automobile accident that almost landed her in jail. — George Carlin
I'm business savvy and my will is only to win. I can't hit rock bottom any lower. It's only up from here. The weight is off the shoulders with that. — Tony Sunshine
The bottom-line, you just have to. You do it because you want to do it and need to do it. You live life just one time. Why sit around and wait for the phone to ring? Even though I'm in a hit phenomenal show and it happens once every ten years - a show this big and popular - the last thing I want to do as an artist is feel comfortable and bide my time. Now is the time, more than ever, in this artistic explosion to do as much as we can! — J. Robert Spencer
Sober alkies are often asked: "When did you hit rock bottom?" but a more informed question might be: "How many times did you hit rock bottom? — Craig Ferguson
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