Arne Jacobsen Quotes

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.

I think if I had gone to a private school and been coddled a little bit, I wouldn't be as tough as I am now.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers

When I'm thinking of sports, when I'm thinking of a boy growing up and being a man, I'm thinking of three things - honor, integrity, and toughness.

Even in school, I was that kid others tried to pull down because I was naughty and did well in sports and academics. Life has trained me well.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

I think college tennis makes you tough.

I think the kids that struggle are way more prepared for real life.

When you're losing that tends to kind of build the character of everybody together.

Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen - you don't understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you're a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.

I really like school. I like going to school, which sounds a bit stupid, but I do. And I love the social aspect of it: it keeps me grounded, and it's nice to have that routine.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

Learn to be difficult when it counts

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.