Knocked Down Quotes - Page 5

• Because of the person I am I won't be knocked down — ever. They can say I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm whatever, and I'll never stop. I just won't. I've got too much to do. I've too much to be happy about.

  Kate Winslet

  Too Much, Fats, Persons

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• 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

  Careers, Way, Negative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Numbers, Get Back

  FaceBook post by Michael Flatley from May 28, 2013

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• They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Wall, Work

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Believe, Play, People

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• 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

  Giving Up, Winning, Views

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jan 27, 2013

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• In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing for the fights he lost. Jack Dempsey said that in his early days he was knocked down a lot of times and he usually was tempted to stay down because he knew that no one would hit him again until he started to get up. But Jack was a hungry fighter and he knew that if he was going to eat, he must get up in order to get the two dollars. He tells of one occasion when he was knocked down 11 times in one fight, and 11 times he got up in order to win the $2.

  Sterling W Sill

  Fighting, Winning, Order

  Sterling W. Sill (1976). “This Nation Under God”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped by great beams of wood. In short, the yet unfinished and unopened Railroad was in progress.

  Charles Dickens

  Science, House, Progress

  "Dombey and Son".

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• I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

  Craig Raine

  Clean Underwear, Important, Ulysses

  "Genius or fallen idol?". Interviews with Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.

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• Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

  Don King

  Struggle, Reality, Errors

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• 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

  Climate Change, Persons, Has Beens

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• That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Principles, Purpose

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.80, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Strength, Optimistic

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• Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.

  William McIlvanney

  Men, Missing, Important

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• Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it's a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.

  Barry Manilow

  Book, School, Years

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Sunday, White

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• I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Optimism, Honor, Storm

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.1735, e-artnow

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• 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

  Stay Strong, Team, Fall

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.64, John Wiley & Sons

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• My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

  Joe Biden

  Father, Men, Expectations

  "Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics". Book by Joe Biden, 2007.

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• Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me

  Keith Thurman

  Sleep, Knowing, People

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• The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

  Joe Biden

  Life, Art, Quitter

  Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.22, Random House

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• Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

  Kanye West

  Party, Rome, Years

  "Kanye West’s Zane Lowe Interview Can Only Be Described As Amazing" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• 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

  Life Is, Shakes, Walkers

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• When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Stories, Down And

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• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

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