A Quote by Tom Landry
People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.
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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.
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.
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.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming.
I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
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.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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