Mr. Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) - we shall not refer to him as Teddy, a nickname he despised - insisted that people must strive to live a strenuous life. That is, to seek and overcome adversity and hardship in order to achieve success and prosper.
Although his ideals were transformed to align with American imperialism, they are on a more basic and instinctive level representative of the drive that has eluded the Western world. We try to hard to be comfortable, justifying any challenge as being futile and wasteful of energy. What has resulted is a society of critics and less doers, a people too scared to fail.
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat".
Theodore Roosevelt -
One must realize that it is not the outcome that matters, but the transformation that takes place along the way.
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