Ups & Downs Quotes - Page 13

• The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Games, Goal

  "Q&A: Michael Jordan on high school and the Jordan Classic". Interview with Christopher Lawlor, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 14, 2005.

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• Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Opportunity, Existence

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• Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

  William Wilberforce

  Giving, Accounting, Knows

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• It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.

  George R. R. Martin

  Careers, Different, Needs

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• Preparing for the ups and downs of life.

  Robert D. Hales

  Preparing

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• I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

  Herschel Walker

  Life Is, Knocked Down, Shakes

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• The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Death, God

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.304, Penguin

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• Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

  Rick Warren

  Journey, Discovery, Despair

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• Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs. And when you are able to maintain an inner balance, you can choose to act in ways that will create happiness for you and for others. Living each moment happily with an equanimous mind, you will surely progress toward the ultimate goal of liberation from all suffering.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Goal, Mind

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• Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Relationship, Couple, Arguing

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 31, 2011

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• I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Dark, Matter, Lows

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• Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Fitness, Cheerleading

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• The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

  David Richo

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Distance, Journey, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Sound

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• Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each day, if you can still look at the person at your side and can’t imagine anyone else you’d rather have there, the pain and heartache and the ups and downs of love are worth it.

  Nicole Williams

  Pain, Sweet Love, Hard Work

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• Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Ten Inspirational Quotes by APJ Abdul Kalam on his Second Death Anniversary", www.newsgram.com. July 27, 2017.

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• The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever be angry with your horse: you might as well be angry with your mirror.

  Rudolf G. Binding

  Horse, Mirrors, Might

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• I had my ups and downs and I fell a few times, but I did not give. Don't give up.

  Rachel Scott

  Motivational, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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

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