When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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She is a figure of legend and fairy tale, one to be taken seriously, or she might knock you off your feet with a quick whirl of the staff she carries everywhere.

~ Claire Wong

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If you've seen a clear & worthy vision, you get up every morning to pursue your vision even if you were knocked down the previous day...

~ Assegid Habtewold

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There is no disgrace in being knocked down, there is only shame in not getting back up; never quit!

~ Ken Poirot

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