Knocks You Down Quotes

#1. A friend will help you if someone knocks you down. A best friend will pick up a bat and say, Stay down. I got this.

Darynda Jones

#2. When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

Malorie Blackman

#3. When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That's what it's all about.

Bob Harper

#4. You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Amy Chua

#5. Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Muhammad Ali

#6. I struggle with confidence, every time. I'm never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won't want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Life can suck. It can hurt. It has teeth and won't hesitate to bite you. But if you pick yourself back up every time it knocks you down, it'll start to hurt less, because you'll be stronger.

T.J. Klune

#8. That's what life holds for you. You make plans, carefully plots whole road-map; but you never know when a vehicle comes at you full throttle from the next bend and knocks you down.

Aman Jassal

#9. If you don't get up every time the world knocks you down, then you will never know what it means to have ever been standing at all.

R.M. Grace

#10. When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

Jackie Chan

#11. If it weren't for love, the suffering we experience wouldn't be worth it. If it weren't for the suffering, we wouldn't cherish the good things life gives us. Sometimes it'll seem as though life only knocks you down, but you have to learn to pick yourself up and fight back.

Claire Contreras

#12. It was stupid behaviour. And you take a look at the explosion, and it knocks you down and you wake up every morning and you're scared and you're depressed and sad, and you kind of got to let that knock you down and knock you down.

David Letterman

#13. If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Madeleine L'Engle

#14. You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#15. Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

Kat Kaelin

#16. Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down

Keri Hilson

#17. 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

#18. When life knocks you down, stop and look around for one thing that's good, because there is always something. Then cling to that good.

Vi Keeland

#19. When life knocks you down and you land on your knees, you are in the best position to pray.

Mitch Kynock

#20. It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

Linda Grant

#21. When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Tom Krause

#22. Life inspires me. Life is unfair, unkind and unforeseeable. It knocks you down when you least expect it.

Lisa De Jong

#23. Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Kathy Ireland

#24. A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it's a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death.

Marisha Pessl

#25. The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard knocks. She relentlessly helps others by tearing down falsehoods about whatever enshrined "truths" enslave us.

Peter Boghossian

#26. The captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat

Neal Shusterman

#27. 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

#28. Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

Finley Peter Dunne

#29. There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an'
not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

Elizabeth Goudge

#30. We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up

Madeleine Black

#31. As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.

Beverly Sills

#32. English doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

James Nicoll

#33. JUSTICE: Failure is just God's way of making me better. He knocks me down only to lift me up. I'm awesome, and that's the end of the discussion.

Bijou Hunter

#34. Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Jackie Chan

#35. I want to be stunned by passion so intense it knocks me right off my feet, down to my knees, where I know I'll surrender to this luscious insanity.

Ellen Hopkins

#36. Rio does seem like a lot of fun. It's a wonder the two of you are even friends, she's like sunshine and you're just this angry red windstorm that knocks down trees sucks the juice out of everything.

Karina Halle

#37. When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.

Heather Hart

#38. Because I believe that love is an overwhelming, all-consuming force, and when its genuine you can't really ignore it. No matter how long it takes. It knocks down your door by force. It keeps you awake at night. It plagues your thoughts and burns your soul.

Jessica Thompson