Quotes About School Of Hard Knocks

#1. Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Peter McWilliams

#2. A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

Caterina Fake

#3. There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Albert Einstein

#4. I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

David Livermore

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

William O'Neill

#8. I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

#9. Comin' from the school of hard knocks,
Some perpetrate ... they drink Clorox.
Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

Chuck D

#10. I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Lana Del Rey

#11. Graduating from the School of Hard Knocks doesn't always get you to Fort Knox.

Edward Harris

#12. am not a well-schooled woman. Instead, I have learned my lessons from experience, mistakes, and the heat of battle. If ever there was a shining alumnus from the school of hard knocks, it is I. My diploma can be found, printed in black and blue, at points of varying interest from head to toe.

Chris Kreski

#13. The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Menander

#14. Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.

Daniel Egger

#15. After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.

Brad Thor

#16. When one has but a single idea he finds in it everything.

Victor Hugo

#17. How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

Mignon McLaughlin

#18. To me, I see scars of courage. Inflicting them gave him the strength to survive the pain that's plagued him all his life. I'm grateful to every one of them because he's still here, with me.

Nicola Haken

#19. Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

#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. God's purpose at the cross was as real as was the guilt of the crucifiers.

J.I. Packer

#22. Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Sitting Bull

#23. I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.

Daryl Hannah

#24. The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary.

Robert G. Allen

#25. As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Andrew O'Hagan

#26. You don't need to force a bird to like you if you are feeding it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward. I have a sturdy will. I have a big heart. I'm a decent guy. And I have a great gift. It's blunted me to the world in many ways.

James Ellroy

#28. In my experience all women deserve someone better.

David Gemmell

#29. Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.

G.A. Henty

#30. Come back with your shield or on it.

John Steinbeck