Ups & Downs Quotes - Page 12

• Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

  Harvey Mackay

  Down And

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, August, Defense

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• The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment.

  Willi Smith

  Sports, Life Lesson, Athlete

  Source: uproxx.com

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• A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

  Chris Carmack

  Crazy, Space, Careers

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I was always interested in how to be more joyful. This goes all the way back to elemenatary school. I looked at what was going on around me and I wanted something better. Because my mother had so many ups and downs, I watned to know how to be "up" more often.

  Bonnie St. John

  Mother, School, Way

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• Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

  Tobin Heath

  Sports, Different, World

  "A conversation with U.S. women’s soccer team member Tobin Heath". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• "The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.

  Paul Auster

  Falling In Love, Morning, Children

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her through the biggest trial of her life - when she lost Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . . Go it old girl. You've done it well.

  Helen Hayes

  Girl, Queens, Discipline

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• My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

  Mike Mills

  Dad, Writing, Gay

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• People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, People, Overcoming

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• When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Wind, Shadow, Shadow Of The Wind

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• Life is like a roller coaster- it has its ups and downs but in the end you have smiles and giggles because you know...you did it.

  Julia Serano

  Life, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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• Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.

  Mary Harron

  Dad, Growing Up, Disappointment

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I think there are pluses and minuses to being simpleminded. The minus is not having any sort of vision for the future. But on the plus side, my wife and I have really been happy through all of the ups and downs.

  Ty Burrell

  Thinking, Wife, Vision

  Source: deadline.com

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• Every season is so much different and you go through your ups and downs, you figure your team out, you get to play against great teams. Some of the best competition there's been since I've been in the league. Just every night, night in and night out we get to play against the top guys, the top teams. It's a lot of fun.

  Blake Griffin

  Fun, Team, Night

  Source: www.slamonlineph.com

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• We know that God is in control and we all have ups and downs and fears and uncertainty sometimes. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

  Nick Vujicic

  Promise, Needs, Praying

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

  Alice Meynell

  Next Week, Years, Mind

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com

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• Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

  Jessica Mitford

  Ambition, Firsts, Chicago

  JESSICA MITFORD (1963). “THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH”

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• I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.

  Sigrid Undset

  Wine, Beer, Drunk

  Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.44, Vintage

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• Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Bliss

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

  Elsa Barker

  Watches, Flow, Tides

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people, the way 'Community' means something to people. [...] That's more powerful than ratings.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Powerful, Mean

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

  Jimmy Connors

  Way In Life, Perfect, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

  Muso Soseki

  Reality, People, Ordinary

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• Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

  Abdul Kalam

  Everyday, Cash, Assets

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