When You're Knocked Down Quotes

#1. Get back up when you're knocked down.

Robbie Lawler

#2. 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

#3. It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.

Robbie Lawler

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed.

John Kennedy Toole

#8. 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

#9. High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

Nathaniel Branden

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I can't be in your place as I don't have a fat, knocked-up ass to sit on. Yeah, you asked me for a major, and if you want to come through on it, you'll sit down, shut up, and let me work. Bitch.

J.D. Robb

#14. I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

George W. Bush

#15. 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

#16. He looked down at her and rolled his eyes then looked over and saw me approaching with the chain. "What happened to her?" I asked peeking around him. "I knocked her out. I got tired of listening to her whimpering. I mean if you're a cold blooded killer, act like it." He

Yolanda Olson

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Joel Osteen

#22. It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

#23. That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.

Yasmin Paige

#24. 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

#25. The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

Nancy Farmer

#26. Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

Frank Robinson

#27. When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

Alesha Dixon

#28. As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

Shawn Johnson

#29. Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

Bill Walsh

#30. When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.

Pattie Mallette

#31. 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

#32. You are here, alive and awake and for whatever reasons you have fought your battles, it's time to start focusing on what strengths pulled you up when the entire world had knocked you down.
That's where the virtue in self grows.

Nikki Rowe

#33. I'm not good at much in this world."
Her brow furrowed. She didn't like hearing me say that. She'd never liked it when I knocked myself down.
"But I'm good at loving you,

Elizabeth Finn

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Everyone gets knocked down, but only the strong get up.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#42. I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

Adrian McKinty

#43. Champions don't give up; they get up!

Sanjo Jendayi

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Now you've a clean start ... you've brushed three or four ornaments down, and in a fit of pique knocked off the rest of them. The thing now is to collect some new ones, and the farther you look ahead in the collecting, the better, but remember, do the next thing.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

John Wayne

#51. It was a privilege to be with someone when life had knocked them down, because it meant you got to help build them up again. He

Laura Kaye

#52. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

Austin O'Malley

#56. 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

#57. Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated ... , and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.

Edna Ferber

#58. Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record.

Janet Evanovich

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. It seemed crazy that something so big, so seemingly permanent, could be knocked down by a little wind and rain.

Morgan Matson

#64. Their anger just knocked us all down from halfway across the world," Bob reminded him. "I don't think running a few more feet is going to do us any good.

Rachel Aaron

#65. 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

#66. I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

Faith Hill

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog.

Jack Paar

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Jean Rhys

#75. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

#76. 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

#77. When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

Bob Gibson

#78. Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing.

E. M. Forster

#79. I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Ray Rice

#80. 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