Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
Context: [A]ll men die.... A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. but above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man. And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. Someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop — and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable. And what is death? an end to trouble. An end to strife and fear.... Bear this in mind when you decide your future.
“Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 34
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English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870Related quotes
“I pick myself up off the ground to have you knock me back down
Again and again”
"Cruel to Be Kind" on the single Little Hitler / Cruel to Be Kind (1978) (Top of the Pops 1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJ7oGHwMTI
Context: I pick myself up off the ground to have you knock me back down
Again and again and when I ask you to explain
You say, you've got to be...
Cruel to be kind in the right measure
Cruel to be kind it's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind means that I love you
Baby, you got to be cruel, you got to be cruel to be kind.
Watson, Jr. cited in: Joseph Mancuso (1975) Managing technology products. p. 160.
“It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 411.
“It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”
Moiraine Damodred
(15 October 1993)
Violence is Golden
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
“I'm gonna pick up the pieces,
and build a Lego house.
When things go wrong we can knock it down.”
Song lyrics, + (2011)
“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 103