Ups Downs Quotes

There's ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love. ~ Beyonce Knowles

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something. ~ Davy Rothbart

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. ~ John Updike

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better. ~ Robbie Lawler

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings. ~ Walter Isaacson

Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You've got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs. ~ Moliere

One of the very best ways to keep in touch with your own ups and downs is to keep track of what activities energize you and which drain you - on a regular basis. ~ Bobb Biehl

Love isn't only love, sweetheart. It's hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each day, if you can still look at the person at your side and can't imagine anyone else you'd rather have there, the pain and heartache and the ups and downs of love are worth it. ~ Nicole Williams

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride. ~ Gary Neville

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all. ~ Mooji

The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don't ever be angry with your horse: you might as well be angry with your mirror. ~ Rudolf G. Binding

What I try to do is don't have any ups and downs. I emphasize taking the same approach. ~ Hideki Matsui

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. ~ Habeeb Akande

If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation. ~ Condoleezza Rice

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom. ~ Nancy Farmer

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts. ~ Blake Shelton

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair. ~ Rick Warren

There have been some ups and downs, but I'm happy that I've stayed fairly consistent. ~ Evan Longoria

Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love. ~ Doc Childre

It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington. ~ Barack Obama

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone. ~ John Scalzi

Life is a journey of ups, downs, failures, and turns. Make sure it won't make you sick in the end. ~ Kisha Rivera

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels. ~ Steven Tyler

Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for the ups and downs. So about 20 years ago I put all of my money and liquid assets into videotape rewind machines. ~ David Letterman

A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all. ~ Tonya Hurley

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life. ~ Jeff Daniels

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry. ~ Chris Carmack

Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her through the biggest trial of her life - when she lost Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . Go it old girl. You've done it well. ~ Helen Hayes

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale. ~ Steve Nash

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly. ~ Jessica Mitford

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out. ~ Harvey MacKay

Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through. ~ Dalai Lama

Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start I forget all about it. One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, a silence there;[ ... ] the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art. ~ Virginia Woolf

Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life - glad to be alive. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. ~ Tahj Mowry

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs. ~ Michael Owen

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through. ~ Jill Hennessy

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. ~ Isabel Allende

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality. ~ Adam Lambert

I have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell ~ Don Marquis

I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life. ~ Marc Maron

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business. ~ Will Ferrell

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. ~ Ryan Reynolds

I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day. ~ Russell Wilson

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs. ~ Joan Jett

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living. ~ Abdul Kalam

It's definitely a relief that it's over. It's been a long season for us, with ups and downs. But we're going to put it behind us now and we've got to try and be a better team. ~ Eddie Griffin

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived. ~ William Wilberforce

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups. ~ Robert Breault

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being. ~ Melanie Griffith

People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories. ~ Harvey Weinstein

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations. ~ Joe Sakic

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me. ~ Tracy Morgan

I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today. ~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

Life is like a roller coaster. I like the ups and downs. Life is like a roller coaster with many ups and down. The faster the better. I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue. ~ Lloyd Bridges

In any profession, there are always ups and downs. ~ Sachin Tendulkar

I think there are pluses and minuses to being simpleminded. The minus is not having any sort of vision for the future. But on the plus side, my wife and I have really been happy through all of the ups and downs. ~ Ty Burrell

Preparing for the ups and downs of life. ~ Robert D. Hales

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway. ~ Napoleon Hill

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that. ~ Curtis Jackson

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. ~ Annie Dillard

"The weird world rolls on ... " meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity. ~ Paul Auster

Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down. ~ Dana Hill

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them. ~ Neal Schon

When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions. ~ Pirjo Honkasalo

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up. ~ Herschel Walker

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out. ~ LeCrae

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family. ~ Patrick Dempsey

You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever. ~ Sophia Loren

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me. ~ Lance Armstrong

Where I am today ... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to. ~ Demi Lovato

I was always interested in how to be more joyful. This goes all the way back to elemenatary school. I looked at what was going on around me and I wanted something better. Because my mother had so many ups and downs, I watned to know how to be "up" more often. ~ Bonnie St. John

I had a rough life, full of ups, downs, failures, and achievements. What can I say? That's just life and it's expected. The best part is always waking up knowing that I have it in me to fight and keep going, but I didn't let it get me down or break me ~ Hagir Elsheikh

The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end. ~ Quentin Tarantino

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks. ~ Charlie Chaplin

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel. ~ Jack Kerouac

The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground. ~ Lady Randolph Churchill

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. ~ Michael Jordan

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life. ~ Don King

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together. ~ Ricardo Montalban

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns. ~ Snoop Dogg

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. ~ Claude Chabrol

There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are. ~ Liana Liberato

A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back. ~ Lights

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters. ~ Jimmy Connors

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love. ~ Mike Mills

It's all about guts. I've had so many ups and downs, I'm not scared of being down. ~ Chauncey Billups

We know we're going to go through ups and downs and we've all experienced that, but it's about surrendering some of that control, which we all find so hard to do, but it's really freeing when you can do that. ~ Mike Fisher

Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups. ~ Michael Arrington

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it. ~ Paul Downs Colaizzo

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It's the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.

The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can not do something perfectly, then you shouldn't do it at all... ~ James Clear

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable. ~ A.P. Herbert

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all. ~ Grace Paley

say: maybe not in these words; maybe not in words at all, but in the purer language of thought; but yes, certainly, this is what was at the bottom of it all; because children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison, and it was the poison of grown-ups which did for us. ~ Salman Rushdie

When we are young we cannot know
what it is like to bigger grow
but why do grown-ups great and tall
so soon forget they once were small. ~ Marta Moran Bishop