Bottom Quotes

• The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

  Claude Monet

  Water, Insane, Trying

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• The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sex, Cat, Men

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• I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Sports, Determination

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 10, 2014

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• Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

  Voltaire

  Excellent, Middle, Dregs

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• There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

  Vaclav Havel

  Stars, Hero, Political

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.78, Routledge

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• I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

  Bryan Adams

  Adversity, Rude, Police

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Media, Bird, Cages

  "The Amazing Success Story of ‘Spiri Who?’" by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1970.

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• Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

  Bernard Baruch

  Business, Liars, Trying

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

  William J. Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Ethos

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.170, Best Books on

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• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Individuality, Literature

  "Stories, Essays, & Poems".

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• You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Slam, Walks

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• Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Break Out, Each Day, Examination

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• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

  Booker T. Washington

  Education, Race, Independence

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• It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Philosophy, Passion

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• The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

  Ace Frehley

  Kissing, Army, Growing

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• I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

  Donald Sutherland

  Dirty, Play, Careers

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Friendship, Artist, Enemy

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• For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

  Nigel Dennis

  Garden, Years, Cottages

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• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

  Publilius Syrus

  Success, Recovery, New Beginnings

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• Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

  Josef Skvorecky

  Writing, Sea, Hygiene

  Josef Škvorecký (1985). “The Engineer of Human Souls”, Pocket Books

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• The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

  Chuck Grassley

  Nuts, Political, United States

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