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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. — Jeanette Winterson

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. — Peter McWilliams

No warrior scolds. Courteous words or else hard knocks are his only language. — C.S. Lewis

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. — Lyndon B. Johnson

We have to keep looking and never give up believing that someday, we will find what we seek. Keep looking. Don't settle. Don't accept. Believe. — Emily March

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are no tough times, hard knocks, or challenges that aren't laden with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds for those who see them through. — Mike Dooley

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. — D.H. Lawrence

Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism — Jack Goldstone

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks. — Gloria Allred

Sometimes, the hard knocks of life are blessings in disguise. — James Houston Turner

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. — Djuna Barnes

I try to remember that hard knocks leave dents. — Jennifer Donnelly

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back. — Munia Khan

Graduating from the School of Hard Knocks doesn't always get you to Fort Knox. — Edward Harris

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley

The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience. — Max Anders

I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks. — Joe Cocker

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks. — Albert Einstein

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business. — Sheryl Crow

Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you. — Shannon Love

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. — Plautus

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. — Menander

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. — Whoopi Goldberg

The Spell's on You — Sheila Sweeny Higginson

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards. — Stefan Zweig

If words are the truth, what is living for? — Marty Rubin

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. — David Livermore

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed. — Tom Hanks

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut. — William O'Neill

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. — Henry Ford

That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people. — Reince Priebus