Hard Knocks Quotes

“You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.”
― Tom Hanks

“Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

“It's important to remember that regret is a difficult teacher, but class is optional.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“In all seriousness, I think one of my problems at Ault was that I tried too hard to learn lessons. I didn't recognize how much of the time life is just random. And often the lesson I thought I was learning was the wrong one.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Show Don't Tell

“After a Time

After a time, all losses are the same.
One more thing lost is one thing less to lose;
And we go stripped at last the way we came.

Though we shall probe, time and again, our shame,
Who lack the wit to keep or to refuse,
After a time, all losses are the same.

No wit, no luck can beat a losing game;
Good fortune is a reassuring ruse:
And we go stripped at last the way we came.

Rage as we will for what we think to claim,
Nothing so much as this bare thought subdues:
After a time, all losses are the same.

The sense of treachery--the want, the blame--
Goes in the end, whether or not we choose,
And we go stripped at last the way we came.

So we, who would go raging, will go tame
When what we have we can no longer use:
After a time, all losses are the same;
And we go stripped at last the way we came.”
― Catherine Davis

“Some days I’m
trying to force
a smile so
hard it feels
like I might
shit my
pants”
― Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet

“Sometimes there’s no way to get the upper hand without taking a few uppercuts.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall.
Cuz everybody falls.”
― Martyna Majok, Cost of Living