Best 210 quotes in «get up quotes» category

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing  - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

So that plan worked out well.' Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."' All the same,' he said, 'I think the whole thing worked out rather beautifully.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

Some people get up in the morning, don't go to the gym, they go take a shower. Well, I go to the gym, and I get a shower too.

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other.

We get up in the morning.  We do our best.  Nothing else matters.

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

What matters is how many times you get up.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.

When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.

When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.

Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.