A Quote by Marion Barry

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

Marion Barry

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Marion Barry
American - Politician
March 6, 1936 - November 23, 2014

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

Maya Angelou

I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

Sam Worthington

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

God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.

Marianne Williamson

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

Chris Spielman

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

Ben Affleck

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

Og Mandino

It takes a certain level of maturity to get hit and get knocked down and get back up.

Jamal Crawford

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Joe Biden

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

Pattie Mallette

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

Maya Angelou

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

Angela Duckworth

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Jim Lampley

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.