Quotes About Picking Yourself Up

#1. Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.

Eric Maisel

#2. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.

Lisa Unger

#3. As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

Robert Breault

#4. I think what I've realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards.

Sophie Kinsella

#5. But I know you have courage, and I know you have will. The rest is just picking yourself up and ramming into the wall again and again until it falls down. You get a bloody forehead, so what? You can do it, I swear you can.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

Beth Brooke

#7. Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and you'll be picking up the pieces for a bloodydamn month.

Pierce Brown

#8. Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Jeffrey Tayler

#9. The sweater didn't fit me, of course. Even with the sleeves rolled up I looked like a baggy monkey picking bananas. But to my way of thinking, at least in winter, woolly warmth trumps freezing fashion any day of the week.

Alan Bradley

#10. Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.

William J. Mitchell

#11. "Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

Gwyneth Paltrow

#12. I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

Ingrid Weir

#13. All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

Thomas Perry

#14. I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

Ted Cruz

#15. Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,

Charles Dickens

#16. I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

Aaron Paul

#17. It's impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.

Peter Kay

#18. Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Gautama Buddha

#19. I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

Mose Allison

#20. I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else
all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

Lauren DeStefano

#21. Disobedience is a sure recipe for disaster, picking up the pieces is even harder

Kudakwashe Mazendame

#22. Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.

Cheyenne Jackson

#23. Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

Georgette Mosbacher

#24. You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped me picking up a newspaper in the past, and it's something I really should start to do.

Sophia Myles

#25. It's okay not to be okay.

Michael Clifford

#26. Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk.

Diogo Mainardi

#27. He gathered me closer, kissed my neck, then spoke in a low voice next to my ear. I figure, see, if you find yourself getting more attached to the two of us than you planned, maybe you won't think about picking up and leaving to start another life somewhere else.

Jenn Bennett

#28. I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

Richie Havens

#29. The heart is a muscle like any other and the best exercise you can do for it is called picking yourself
up off the floor.

Pleasefindthis

#30. Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.

Paula Stokes

#31. If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#32. You may not be able to move the mountain with one hit, but you can do so by picking up the rocks bit by bit! Stop loading yourself and go bit by bit ... You will get there!

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

Jeff Daniels

#34. I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

Jodie Whittaker

#35. I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again.

Miley Cyrus

#36. Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Peter S. Beagle

#37. The key to investing in yourself is being able to see your potential, not just your actual value. Being able to visualize your value demonstrates that you are already picking up the skills of a 3D thinker.

Farshad Asl

#38. Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

Renee Olstead

#39. The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension

J. Robbins

#40. You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?

Shannen Doherty

#41. Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#42. I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.

Kate Voegele

#43. Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs

John Motson

#44. Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

Barbara Woodhouse

#45. I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

Al Yankovic

#46. I know for a fact that a lot of my Christian friends have thoughtful reasons for interpreting the Bible the way they do and that the phrase "pick and choose" sounds far too arbitrary to describe the attentiveness and concern with which they approach the text.

Rachel Held Evans

#47. I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

James Gould Cozzens

#48. After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable ... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.

Jim Cramer

#49. To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

Joanna Lumley

#50. Picking out Vince Russo's faults could be a full-time job for somebody.

Jim Cornette

#51. Don't worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

Shannon Celebi

#52. I don't really think it's appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It's pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you're going to be offending some people.

John Cornyn

#53. I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

R. Kelly

#54. As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

Sheena Iyengar

#55. Words are like gems to me ... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye ... that's what names are like for me.

Anne Rice

#56. You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.

Jonathan Tucker

#57. The fact that picking out china patterns was pretty gay didn't bother me, since we were picking them out to shoot them. Frank chose the design. Ivory white with solid black borders and real gold edging. Fucking expensive. He made me pay.

Nicole Castle

#58. Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

Adriaan Kortlandt

#59. I've never been much into picking things apart.

Meg White

#60. What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing on your neck the other day was just a fluke. I guess not--looks like you get off on picking up a few souvenirs when you...get off. ~Crash

Jordan Castillo Price

#61. And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#62. Choosing an agent is like picking a college. They give you a pitch, you hear what they've got to say, you hear what they're going to do for you. Ultimately it's a good gut reaction.

Diana Taurasi

#63. There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to a musical half man half bull was all bull.

Don Roff

#64. These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

Patrick Macnee

#65. Picking your own jobs means you get to exercise your own ethics. But ethics isn't a science. Which is to say... You do your best... But that doesn't make you right.

Nathan Edmondson

#66. If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions.

Doug Stanhope

#67. Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

Bill Keller

#68. I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.

Robert Frost

#69. Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Jessica Mitford

#70. Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Jules Shear

#71. You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.

Timothy Ferriss

#72. I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

Roger McGuinn

#73. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

Woody Hayes

#74. Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.

Jim Cramer

#75. Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

Questlove

#76. I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

Sandra Cisneros

#77. I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.

Sharon Tate

#78. It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

Jodi Picoult