Top 100 Quotes About Knocked Down
#1. Protective coloration ... you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.
Bruce Coville
#2. You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Prince Charles
#3. Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.
James L. Brooks
#4. To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
John Ashcroft
#5. The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.
Austin O'Malley
#6. Cool it," cried Olga. "Working hard is what I do! Can't be perfect. Going to school not cheap and what are you doing here, a beauty nobody want. My first year was ok, only five or ten times knocked down, then later more and more. He says I'm no lady and gotta work harder for his dollar.
J.M.K. Walkow
#7. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
#8. Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.
John Wayne
#9. My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.
Kevin Allen
#10. 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
#11. Out of the sighs a little comes,
But not of grief, for I have knocked down that
Before the agony; the spirit grows,
Forgets, and cries;
A little comes, is tasted and found good ...
Dylan Thomas
#12. 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
#13. What's that?" he yelped. "Don't worry," said Ford, "they haven't started yet." "Thank God for that," said Arthur, and relaxed. "It's probably just your house being knocked down,
Douglas Adams
#14. But you're so much stronger than he was. He wasn't able to get up after being knocked down. You're different. I've never even seen you fall. - Jade, Small Circles
Megan Duke
#15. I first suspected something was amiss when I exited the coffee shop on Greenup Street and was knocked down by a herd of bison.
Joshua Palmatier
#16. 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
#17. I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.
Ray Rice
#18. 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
#19. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
#20. 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
#21. Houses were knocked down ... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood ... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.
Charles Dickens
#22. I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
Ricky Schroder
#23. What did you do?" Scapegrace asked.
A series of expressions flitted across Clarabelle's face. First, there was indignation, then there was resignation, followed by hope, chased by confusion, and finally knocked down and sat upon by innocence. "Nothing.
Derek Landy
#24. You can only get knocked down so many times before you start shying away from a raised hand, even if it's extended in kindness.
T.J. Klune
#25. I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.
Bernard Hopkins
#26. 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
#27. It seemed crazy that something so big, so seemingly permanent, could be knocked down by a little wind and rain.
Morgan Matson
#28. I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.
Janel Moloney
#29. 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
#30. It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
#31. If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
Joel Osteen
#32. 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
#33. If you can go out there and stand up for what it is you believe in no matter how many times you are knocked down, in the end the swinging of your own blows will exhaust them.
Erin Brockovich
#34. All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.
Roger Staubach
#35. 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
#36. The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic
and took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.
But the thing was, you kept going. You kept your friends and your
family and your mate as safe as you were able. And you kept fighting even
after you were knocked down.
J.R. Ward
#37. The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.
John Lasseter
#39. Don't just give up, Hachiko.
Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time.
If you keep getting up, you win.
Ai Yazawa
#40. High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
Nathaniel Branden
#41. Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.
Paul Azinger
#42. The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
Scott Turow
#43. My brother's costume is the exception. He looks like an American. In fact, he behaves like one. When he tried to pick up the first kid he knocked down, he smashed into several others, it snowballed, chaos ensued. My brother very much resembled America today in pretty much all things.
Peter Hedges
#44. I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.
Adrian McKinty
#46. 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
#47. I'd been knocked down. Again and again. I just kept getting up. And I was still standing, in platforms, with great hair.
Kristen Ashley
#48. Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
Chen Shui-bian
#49. It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
Vince Lombardi
#50. 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
#51. Getting knocked down in life is a given; getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Zig Ziglar
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
Don Drysdale
#55. The fact is ... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
Orrin Hatch
#56. 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
#57. The world and everyone in it is always ready to blame a man for anything when he is already knocked down.
Therese May
#58. The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.
Greg Giraldo
#59. Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.
George Will
#60. If I get up just one less time than the number of times I've been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#61. 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
#62. You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.
Judd Nelson
#63. If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
Muhammad Ali
#66. You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.
Wally Amos
#67. It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.
Bruce Lee
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.
Carl Yastrzemski
#72. 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
#73. 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
#75. It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game.
Harmon Killebrew
#76. 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
#77. It is when we are knocked down that we learn the most about standing up. We stop trying to be perfect.
Amy Lisewski
#78. The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#79. People think that strength is about lifting weights in the gym. It's more about getting up when you're knocked down by life.
Ashwin Sanghi
#80. If you've seen a clear & worthy vision, you get up every morning to pursue your vision even if you were knocked down the previous day...
Assegid Habtewold
#81. My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down.
Anonymous
#82. Of course I don't want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#83. A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. I miss, but I do hit the board, and all eight cans tumble to the ground as a result.
"I win," I tell him. "The goal was to knock down the cans, right? I knocked down all eight with one bullet. Can't beat that."
"I'm afraid that's not how it works, love.
Rysa Walker
#85. For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#86. 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
#87. When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That's the American way, and I would expect every single member of Congress to support that sentiment with their words, their actions, and their votes.
Paul Tonko
#88. 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
#89. You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.
Muhammad Ali
#90. The snag lies not in the laws themselves as we call them "loopholes" but the much anticipated upshots are knocked down by the failure to interpret in the intended perspective.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.
Jack Campbell
#94. 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
#95. Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, 'Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?'
Jonathan Meades
#96. Elden started toward me, "I think that's enough!"
The man I almost knocked down bolted from his chair and shouted, "Let her speak!"
Yield, rat boy!
Joan Bauer
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.
Mike Krzyzewski
#100. When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.
Pattie Mallette
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