You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Things are rough all over.
Life is unfair. And it’s not fair that life is unfair.
Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.
Heroes aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. “Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.
Come on obstacles! I’ve been expecting you! This is the chance that I’ve been waiting for!
Hard times always lead to something great.
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.