Inspirational Quotations by James Russell Lowell
- Mishaps are like knives,
that either serve us or cut us,
as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
- Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that
the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
- Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
- Talent is that which is in a man's power;
genius is that in whose power a man is.
- Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
- That best academy, a mother's knee.
- No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.