Down And Quotes

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

When life seems hard,
the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat;
instead,
they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?

My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older.

When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.

Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

Dreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose.

If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.

People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

The approach to that movie wasn't, 'Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.' The concept was, 'Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.' So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, 'What's the movie here.' That's when we realized that the movie was 'The Maple Syrup Saga'.

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Trust yourself,..dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?

When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".

Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

I never back down and I never quit!

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.