James Russell Lowell Quotes

You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

I've been dropped. You get up, and you win the fight.

A little adversity can't hold me down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

Resilience is going to pay off.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.