Top 89 Knocked Back Quotes
#1. All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always.
James S.A. Corey
#2. It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.
Hester Browne
#3. Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let's give it another go.
James Dyson
#4. One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan's own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.
Jeff Grubb
#5. I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.
Michael Caine
#6. I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.
Rufus Sewell
#7. Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
Chris Spielman
#8. Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.
Hillary Clinton
#9. All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
John Wayne
#10. 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
#11. When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. 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
#13. In the last fifteen minutes, she'd knocked him flat on his back, reduced him to speechlessness, and for the first time in his life, made him wonder if lightning strikes from fate weren't metaphysical bullshit.
Angel Payne
#14. One time, when I was in a hide in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell three metres to the ground, landing on my back. It was as if the impact had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay there struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything. That
Suzanne Collins
#15. Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you. Here you are back the third time. You call that smart?
Richard Stark
#16. When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.
Alesha Dixon
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Well, I know I'm back in America now. I've been knocked unconscious.
Rupert Giles
#20. Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.
Pierce Brosnan
#21. My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.
Andy Barrie
#22. September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn't simply knocked silly by her fall.
Catherynne M Valente
#23. For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.
Jeremy Lin
#24. I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.
Marcus Luttrell
#25. With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.
Sharon Sant
#26. 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
#27. Someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Barabas called. The door swung open and Derek stuck his head in. "Hey, do you have any duct tape?" He saw me, stepped back, and closed the door without a word. Well. "Coward," Barabas said, loud enough for Derek to hear.
Ilona Andrews
#28. Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.
Max Beerbohm
#29. 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
#30. Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that.
CM Punk
#31. Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[ ... ]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
John Steinbeck
#32. When Tyler got back, she was making minestrone. It always knocked him back a step to see her
working in the kitchen.
Nora Roberts
#33. For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up
this one is for you.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#34. I won't just have a job; I'll have a calling. I'll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I'll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.
Angela Duckworth
#35. 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
#36. That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.
Yasmin Paige
#37. I never dated a girl like her, and she's probably never dated a guy like me. But sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back.
Cora Carmack
#38. He knocked the whiskey back neatly and did not grimace. "Once more, please. Once more with feeling, as they say in the world next door.
Stephen King
#39. I'd never thought of myself as a strong person; it seemed I constantly let myself get knocked down at every turn. But maybe it was true that strength just came from getting back up again, each and every time.
T. Torrest
#40. Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still.
Donna Tartt
#41. To have never experienced pain is to have never appreciated pleasure. To have never been knocked down is to have never felt the pride of getting back up.
William Panzarella
#42. Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.
Marian Keyes
#43. He was so delighted when I bested him that he slapped me on the back and sent me flying into a tree, which I knocked down. It was a hundred year old oak.
Robyn Peterman
#44. 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
#45. We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#46. 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
#47. Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you're going to get knocked down again.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. Herb nodded. "Problem is, you knocked up your girl. That's the only way women'll allow you to get away with a Justice of the Peace." Herb looked back to Hank as many of the men coughed to hide their laughter. "That's the ticket, son, only way to save us all. Start workin' on makin' a baby.
Kristen Ashley
#49. I just always want to be different - THE EXCEPTION - and this weekend knocked me right back to reality.And the reality is - I AM TRULY BLESSED ..
Jon-Robert Holden
#50. The world became flat and everyone toppled off the edge as I fell off my barstool and into the shelter of his arms. When I tipped my head back to look at him, his pale blue eyes knocked on the door to my heart, then let themselves inside.
C.J. English
#51. I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.
Antony Starr
#52. I've come too far to stop now. I may be knocked down, but I'm not knocked out. I'm going to get back up again. I know I'm a victor, not a victim.
Joel Osteen
#53. If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
Joel Osteen
#54. It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Inej had once offered to teach him how to fall. "The trick is not getting knocked down," he'd told her with a laugh. "No, Kaz," she'd said, "the trick is in getting back up.
Leigh Bardugo
#58. 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
#59. What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
Candace Parker
#60. The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Vince Lombardi
#61. I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean.
Jason Falkner
#62. Because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#63. Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when you knocked on the southerner magician's door to sacrifice yourself? Did they kick you out, thinking you too half-witted to waste their time on?
Maria V. Snyder
#64. When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.
Ann Coulter
#65. 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 Rodham Clinton
#66. Son, how violent is yer woman?" The older man asked sounding curious. Aiden leaned in and whispered. "She knocked me unconscious once with the back of my toilet." The older man's eyes widened. "Better get you some chocolate bars. You can throw those from a distance." Aiden nodded.
Anonymous
#67. Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet
Dwayne Johnson
#68. Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
Sarah Kay
#69. You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.
Wally Amos
#70. I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#71. 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
#72. The day I die, it won't be because gravity knocked me on my back so much as it will be that I could no longer stand up to life.
Jorge David Awe
#73. In my room as a kid ... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Dustin Hoffman
#74. Get knocked down. Get back up. Always be a fighter. Don't be afraid of the punch. Don't be afraid of getting back up. Be afraid of giving up.
Maria Kanellis
#75. Sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back. -Cade
Cora Carmack
#76. The potted plant could have been knocked over intentionally or accidentally, or maybe one of the animals that lived here broke it somehow.
I thought of the impossibilities and improbabilities. Jack would say that elves had broken it when they came to take me back to the wood.
Marta Acosta
#77. 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
#78. I was just going over London Bridge and I saw someone had attacked the Madonna's statue. Knocked off the baby's head.'
'That was done a while back. It would be that devil Cranmer. You know what he is when he's taken a drink.
Hilary Mantel
#79. 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
#80. Life may have knocked you down on the outside but the key to a great life is to learn how to get back up on the inside. Always let your spirit soar.
Timothy Pina
#82. There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
Muhammad Ali
#83. The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.
Greg Giraldo
#84. 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
#85. They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.
Don Everly
#86. This set off a series of additional questions from Batty, which Iantha gracefully took on, giving Rosalind the chance to slip away unnoticed. She crossed the street to the Geigers' house, headed round to the back, and knocked on the kitchen door, just as she'd done a thousand times before.
Jeanne Birdsall
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. She wasn't a cowardIf she were she would have retreated back into her shell years before and pulled back entirely from life. She was a fighter. Life knocked her down, and she coped by getting up and moving on.
Dee Henderson
