James Russell Lowell Quotes

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

I've worked really hard, but it's definitely not been easy.

The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it.

Life is not mean to be easy.

Man is born to labor.

There is no progress without struggle.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever

No one knows how much we went through to finish 'Furious 7.'

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

Struggles are what made everything worth while.

I'd rather say that had the going not been tough, perhaps it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.

My entire life, nothing's been easy. This is the way it ought to be.

Nothing in my life was ever easy.