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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it. Kobe Bryant

Feet, Chill, Show

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Samuel Ullman

Deep, Mind, Teen

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. Don Kardong

Injuries, Sanity, Eventually

I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more! Faith Hill

Feet, Fact, Shelter

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well. Margaret D. Nadauld

Father, Doing, Part

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Emiliano Zapata

Feet, Better, Die

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo

Thoughts, Moments, Which

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! Omar Torrijos Herrera

Will, Dead, Standing Up

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. Mia Hamm

May, Goal, Worth It

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. Bill Watterson

Gardening, Green, Re-Examine

Traveling is difficult when you go for long stretches at a time, but you always come back refreshed, feeling that you've accomplished something. I'm on my knees before I go anywhere in this world. Thomas S. Monson

Always, Refreshed, Before

Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face. Yolanda Hadid

Silent, Face, Brought

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. Bede Griffiths

My Life, Easter, Been

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true. Daniel Radcliffe

Bee, Young, About

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it. Rene Redzepi

Greatness, Forest, Going

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. - Euripides

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. Euripides

Love, Fasting, Thank

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. George H. W. Bush

Civil War, United States

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way. Harrison Ford

Big, Movie, German

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that. George H. W. Bush

Wait, Some, Atheists

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Night, Reason, Happen

For me, it's a great opportunity on a public platform to get on your knees and humble myself and thank the Lord for all the blessings he's put in my life. Tim Tebow

Humble, Blessings, My Life

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out. Mikhail Gorbachev

Will, Russia, Pull

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught. Lucy Liu

Move, Caught, Otherwise

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals. Alan Rickman

Feet, About, Bleeding

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? Jeanette Winterson

Snowflake, Recover, Could

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Always, Good-Looking, Nearly

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