Quotes About Life Knocks You Down

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Mitch Kynock

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

Tom Krause

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

Jackie Chan

#6. 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

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

Malorie Blackman

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

Kat Kaelin

#9. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Gautama Buddha

#10. Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.

Ryan Lilly

#11. Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back

Sara Gruen

#12. Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

Sara Gruen

#13. In real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

Haruki Murakami

#14. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head ...

Sara Gruen

#15. Sometimes life knocks you on your ass ... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Steve Maraboli

#16. 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

#17. Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Mark Twain

#18. 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

#19. The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Walter Chrysler

#20. 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

#21. O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

John L. Bates

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. You can be as happy as you've ever been in your life, and shit is still going to happen. But it doesn't just happen. It knocks you sideways and crashes you into the ground, because you were stupid enough to believe in sunshine and roses.

Chevy Stevens

#26. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#27. 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

#28. If the knock once and door remain lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them.

Steve Goodier

#30. When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.

Saru Singhal

#31. Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit.
Within every problem is an opportunity.
Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts.

Napoleon Hill

#32. 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

#33. You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling.

Anthony Liccione

#34. It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

Bryce Courtenay

#35. Sometimes standing for something is simply not enough......Espeacially when life blows you a mighty wind inwhich knocks you off of your feet or the very thing that kept you grounded is taken away,Convusion and Elusion can very well become your concrete.

Tamika Barr

#36. When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw it open with wild abandon, and say, Yes! Yes, come in! Do me, and do me big!

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#37. It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Saint Augustine

#38. Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.

Richie Norton

#39. 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

#40. Father Gregory laid a hand on his shoulder. "Sometimes life knocks us to our knees." His hand tightened briefly. "But that's a damn good position to pray from.

Laura Oliva

#41. Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead

William Butler Yeats

#42. 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

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

James Houston Turner

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

Jackie Chan

#45. Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

Katha Pollitt

#46. Even when life knocks me around,
I will not lose hope.
For you see, nothing is ever personal
Just a chance for me to grow.

Nikki Rowe

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

Jeanette Winterson

#48. It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

Elfriede Jelinek

#49. We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#50. Cancer teaches that life is too short to be lived like that; you take you knocks when they come, not in advance.

Olive Ann Burns

#51. You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

Conway Twitty

#52. 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

#53. When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Boris Pasternak

#54. I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

Pauline Hanson

#55. 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

#56. When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Ethel Barrymore

#57. I feel like nature abhors prolonged suffering. It does not allow it. It knocks you off if you got something chronic. But we somehow perpetuate that. Like we live day after day, year after year, our whole life under prolonged suffering. And that I would call cruelty.

Daniel Suelo

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

Lisa De Jong

#59. If I learned anything these past few months, it's that life sucks, Daniel. It sucks. It's mean, it's vicious, and it's unapologetic. It's dark and cruel. But then, sometimes, it's so beautiful that it knocks all of that darkness out of your system with the light.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#60. When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

John Masefield

#61. There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

Kate Dickie