Quote by James Russell Lowell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Summary

This quote by poet and philosopher James Russell Lowell emphasizes that failing to reach one's full potential and setting low goals for oneself is more detrimental than simply failing at a specific task. Lowell suggests that the real wrongdoing lies in not challenging oneself or striving for greatness. By encouraging individuals to dream big and aim high, Lowell highlights the importance of ambition and its role in personal and societal success.

Topics

Crime

By James Russell Lowell

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stori

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

Stories Story

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of ou

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

Travel

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

Farming

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Susan B. Anthony

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to ge

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Orison Swett Marden

Persistence

To advise is easier than to help.

To advise is easier than to help.

Advice

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Dickens

Idealism Procrastination

The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting idea

The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.

Terry Pratchett

Ideas

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion no

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy Confidence Eccentricity

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suff

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!' The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. 'Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?'Karsa grinned, 'Why, a civilized one.''Indeed!' Shadowthrone turned to Cotillion. 'And you doubted this one!

Funny Inspirational Humour