Bobby Jones Quotes

You can't. You just have to.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

What can't be helped must be endured.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Everything isn't just gonna be okay. It doesn't just have to be good.

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.