For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
Unpopular Knocked Down quotations
You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.
There was a knock on our dressing-room door.
Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty.
I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.
A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down.
It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down
What goes up must come down.
There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as u get right back up.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
But grief still has to be worked through.
It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already.
When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.
Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.
Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times.
But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.
Failure is part of success, an integral part.
Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter.
You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down;
because I knocked all of them down.
It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it.
I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.
God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down.
Every person and every team will be tested on their journey.
It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion.
My strength did not come from lifting weights.
My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down.
If you can go out there and stand up for what it is you believe in no matter how many times you are knocked down, in the end the swinging of your own blows will exhaust them.
Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.
I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''
Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.