Fall Back Quotes

182 quotes by 170 authors

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself. — Dana Hill
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We… — John Dos Passos
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his… — Charles de Gaulle
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. — Robert Downey, Jr.
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. — David Letterman
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time… — Ewan McGregor
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so… — Ewan McGregor
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. — Rudolf Nureyev
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. — Camille Paglia
The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders… — Eric Ries
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses… — Iain Duncan Smith
It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. — Paul Theroux
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of… — Leon Trotsky
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's… — Dave Eggers
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine,… — Aldous Huxley
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their… — C.S. Lewis
When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call… — James Redfield
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a… — Toni Morrison
I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the… — Shannon Hale
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way… — George Eliot

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