James Russell Lowell Quotes

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

Your strength lies in this, that you are not absolute but resolute.

What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one’s achievements.

Press on!--For in the grave there is no work And no device--Press on! while yet ye may!

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.