Knocks Quotes & Sayings

Knocks Quotes & Sayings

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighbouring saloon and does not hear her. - Mark Twain



The punch that knocks you out is the one you didn't see. - Joe Frazier



The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive. - Elbert Green Hubbard



America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Joseph Toynbee



Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. - Jackson Brown



He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore



When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. - Les Brown



There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. - Robert Frost



Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory. - Krzysztof Kieslowski