Best Down Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.”

“You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.”

“Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.”

“I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.”

“All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.”

“This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.”

“The living room is where we come to think, to slow down the world for a second.”

“If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow. You're always going to stay the same.”

“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.”

“Honestly, I never really put the mic down.”

“The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.”

“If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.”

“I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.”

“You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.”

“To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.”

“If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.”

“We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'”

“So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I'll jot down more goals.”

“Sometimes you're fighting the puck, sometimes you're feeling good, you're getting looks, you're making plays up and down the ice.”

“The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.”

“It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.”

“I'm speaking for the streets, for the people down here. I can be their spokesperson.”

“When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.”

“I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.”

“Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.”

“We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.”

“Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.”

“Don't think that because you have to go down in the wash-tub that you are any less a lady!”

“I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.”

“When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.”

“I'm a person who perseveres. You know, you fall down, you get up.”

“I started at the top and worked my way down.”

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”

“Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'”

“I no longer believe that I'm going to be struck down by a punishing God.”

“I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.”

“Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.”

“When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.”

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”

“When you're down a goal and you're not producing, that's where you need to step up and make something happen.”

“The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.”

“Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.”

“As soon as you start listening to the gossip surrounding you, you just get dragged down by it.”

“But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.”

“There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.”

“Life takes you down weird paths.”

“You know I don't want to fall. I'm a tall woman, and it's a long way down.”

“I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.”

“I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.”

“If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.”

“Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.”

“Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.”

“If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.”

“The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.”

“To kick someone when they're down is just something that you really should never do.”

“You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.”

“Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.”

“If oil prices will go too high, it will slow down the world economy and would trigger a global recession.”

“If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.”

“Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.”

“Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.”

“Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.”

“The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.”

“It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.”

“When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.”

“I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.”

“It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.”

“The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.”

“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.”

“I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.”

“Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.”

“The way up and the way down are one and the same.”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“For fast-acting relief try slowing down.”

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”

“I'm unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me until I peed my pants.”

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

“First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.”

“When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.”

“People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.”

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”

“Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.”

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

“Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again”