You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.
We don't have a system that knocks on doors of every person in America.
When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.
Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back.
When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.
Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
If you have anyone smoking pot in a movie it automatically, I think, knocks it up to maybe PG-13 movie rating and if there's a lot of it, even an R rating, even though chances are it is a legal activity in whatever place the film takes place.
So when the world knocks at your front door, clutch the knob and open on up, running forward into its widespread greeting arms with your hands before you, fingertips trembling though they may be.
That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.
Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.
When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.
It is not enough. . . simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.