Hard Knocks In Life Quotes

#1. She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever.

Becky Wade

#2. Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

Lydia Sigourney

#3. I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

Albert Camus

#4. There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

Charles M. Schwab

#5. My mamma says I shouldn't go on the other side ... My mama says the same thing. But she never said nothing about sitting on it

Jacqueline Woodson

#6. Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Les Brown

#7. The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.

Quentin Blake

#8. Ragan gave him a guarded look that said he agreed with every word but strongly doubted Uno's wisdom in voicing them. Ragan, it seemed, had the makings of a wise man in him.

Robert Jordan

#9. True, but I like everything," I said.

"That means you like nothing.

Stephanie Danler

#10. I know I have to give her that freedom. Otherwise I've just caged her, haven't I? And what kind of love would it be, that only came from inside a box?

Jane Lovering

#11. Alyosha later wrote down. Sometimes he stopped speaking altogether, as if gathering his strength, and gasped for breath, yet he seemed to be in ecstasy. He was listened to with great feeling, though many wondered at his words and saw darkness in them

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good."
"If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.

Edward Hoagland

#13. Darkness has its own beauty that you can only see with your inner light.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion.

Stompin' Tom Connors

#15. She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which have bound her are beginning to snap, as personal revelation replaces orthodoxy.

Terry Tempest Williams

#16. I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Rachel Platten

#17. I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

Nick Cannon

#18. Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. Sometimes, the hard knocks of life are blessings in disguise.

James Houston Turner

#20. That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune.

Stefan Zweig

#21. Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.

T.F. Hodge

#22. Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

Mikhail Bakunin

#23. The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.

Frederick Lenz