Daily Inspiration Quote by B. C. Forbes

Golf, in Forbes's hands, becomes a neat piece of capitalist pastoral: a genteel sport repurposed as a parable for ambition. "Bunkers and hazards" aren’t just sand traps; they’re the engineered difficulties that make the game legible as a test of nerve, judgment, and adjustment under pressure. Strip them out and you don’t get purity, you get boredom. That turn is the quote’s real trick: it flips the usual wish for an easier course into an indictment of comfort.

The subtext is very Forbes. As a journalist who built an empire chronicling business strivers and industrial winners, he’s selling a worldview in which friction is not an unfortunate byproduct but the point. Hazards give the player a narrative: setbacks, recovery shots, the satisfaction of competence. In life, the same framing converts misfortune into meaningful texture and, conveniently, turns inequality and instability into character-building features rather than social problems. It’s motivational, but also a little disciplining: if you’re in the bunker, the lesson is to improve your swing, not to question the course design.

Context matters. Forbes wrote in an era when golf was consolidating as a status sport and when American boosterism treated struggle as proof of moral worth. The line flatters its reader: you’re not suffering; you’re playing a serious round. It works because it’s compact, visual, and slightly smug - a reminder that adversity can be romanticized most easily by those with the clubhouse key.