If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.
If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.
We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I'm confident.
People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.