Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash. — Seneca
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice. — Zig Ziglar
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. — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. — Manfred von Richthofen
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. — James J. Braddock
Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach. — Scott Hall
It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down — Carl Brashear
You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down. — Muhammad Ali
Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body. — Jack Dempsey
The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard — Al Davis
To hit bottom is to fall from grace. — Doug Horton
The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down. — Janet Collins
All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better. — Selena Gomez
You can learn a lot by getting knocked down, and I got knocked down over and over again. And every time I got up and kept going. — Michael J. Massimino
Short Knocked Down Quotes
What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me. — India.Arie
There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as u get right back up. — Muhammad Ali
What did not demolish me simply polished me. — India.Arie
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. — Vince Lombardi
Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall — Kyuzo Mifune
Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up. — Jackie Chan
We fall, but we get up because the ground is no place for a champion. — Dustin Poirier
Holyfield won the fight. It's not the first time Romney has been knocked out by a black guy. — David Letterman
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up. — Unknown
Top 10 Knocked Down Quotes
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
A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down. — Mia Hamm
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. — Tim Tebow
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. — Wangari Maathai
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. — Bill Walsh
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. — Shawn Johnson
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out. — Clare Boothe Luce
When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly! — Lance Wubbels
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. — Marvin Sapp
Knocked Down Image Quotes
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. — Kyle Chandler
It's not whether you get knocked down, It's whether you get up.
Getting Knocked Down Quotes
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. — Malcolm X
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again. — Joel Osteen
Sometimes the opportunity only knocks once. Be prepared, be open, be brave.
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. — Les Brown
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. 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. — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in? — Dan Quayle
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Be a warrior. It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down in life as long as you always get back up to fight for your dreams. — Chatri Sityodtong
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive. — Ryan Kwanten
One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but if you got something bad to lay on us, you can get your teeth knocked clean down your throat man. Dangerous people. Lovely people. — Duane Allman
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction. — John C. Maxwell
Keep Getting Knocked Down Quotes
I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up. — Herschel Walker
No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. God sees your resolve. He sees your determination. And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do. — Joel Osteen
Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win. — Ai Yazawa
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.
when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on. — Hillary Clinton
It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going. — Alex O'Loughlin
To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down. — John Ashcroft
When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars.
No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. — Joel Osteen
I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant. — Bernard Hopkins
You’ve got to worry about the next play…Keep believing because people aren’t always going to like you but you have to believe in the people around you…You’re going to get knocked down but it’s how many times you get back up. — Tim Tebow
[Keeping Up with the Joneses] is not one of those movies where people get shot and fall down and there's no reality of what would happen if you got shot and knocked over a motorcycle. It's meant to be a slight comedy in that sense. — Greg Mottola
When You're Knocked Down Quotes
It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be. — Robbie Lawler
When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself. — Joel Osteen
It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person. — Bruce Lee
If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up. — Frank Robinson
When you believe in what you’re doing, that’s the first thing. And you have to be resilient, because people are going to try to knock you down. — Dov Charney
Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town — Bob Dylan
Get back up when you're knocked down. — Robbie Lawler
Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic. — Dennis Quaid
I've Been Knocked Down Quotes
I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history. — Floyd Patterson
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up. — Robin S. Sharma
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up. — Robin Sharma
I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb. — Kristy Swanson
I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me. — Bear Grylls
I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did. — David Beckham
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top. — Harrison Ford
I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all. — Ray Bradbury
Feeling Knocked Down Quotes
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. — Deepika Padukone
I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed. — Rick Schroder
I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed. — Ricky Schroder
Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue — Billy Rose
When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in. — Doug Flutie
I don't feel like I was argued into the faith, but I feel like the evidence knocked down a succession of objections and issues and questions and doubts that I had, that sort of cleared the pathway for me to come to the faith. — Lee Strobel
I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better. — Matt Nathanson
In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana. — Buddha
I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me. — Trip Hawkins
I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it. — Emanuel Steward
Life Knocks You Down Quotes
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. — Swami Vivekananda
It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up. — Ben Affleck
Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up. — Michael Flatley
If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up. And if you stand up, you can fight for your dream once again. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you! — Les Brown
It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life. — Justin Langer
Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down. — Ray Rice
Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up. — Chris Spielman
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. — Keith Richards
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. — Jack Dempsey
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. — Madeleine L'Engle
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. — Jon Gordon
My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down. — Bob Moore
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. — Erin Brockovich
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. — Chen Shui-bian
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. — Dylan Thomas
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. — Prince Of Wales Charles
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. — Prince Charles
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!'' — Richard DeVos
Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds. — Chuck Norris
Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down! — Emily Bronte
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick. — Grace Metalious
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