Choose the Harder Road Quotes

“Do what is easy, and your life will be hard. Do what is hard, and your life will become easy.”

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.”

“There can be no triumph without sacrifice.”

“Great companies are built by people who are willing to do the hard things”

“Nothing is going to be easy. Get over it.”

“If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.”

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

“What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.”

“It’s a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

“You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do.”

“The best strategy is to make friends with the discomfort of effort.”

“Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.”

“Doing the difficult things that you’ve never done awakens the talents you never knew you had.”

“Growth comes at the point of resistance.”

“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”

“The cold is your warm friend.”

“Pursuing your passion should be rephrased as choosing the suffering that you love”

“You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too. That’s part of it.”

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”

“Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do.”

“The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.”

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”

“It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t.”

“There’s no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.”

“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”

“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.”

“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.”

“Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.”

“If it was always easy, it wouldn’t be worthwhile.”

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either, but their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

“If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.”

“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

“The greatest achievements come from the hardest problems”

“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.”

“We are living progressively sheltered, sterile, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged, safety-netted lives.”

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”

“There can be no progress, no achievement, without sacrifice, and a man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“Pain will never go away, uncertainty will never go away, and there is no getting away from the need for constant work. Those are the three aspects of reality.”

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

“If you really do want to do something significant, you’re going to have to make sacrifices. You have to. That’s just part of it.”

“If it’s too easy or it’s already been done, it’s probably not worth having.”

“What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.”

“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”

“The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

“The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.”

“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”

“Better is the enemy of good.”

“In this world, it’s not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

“What is easy to do is also easy not to do.”

“Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.”

“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

“It takes guts to work hard enough to get the things you want.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear.”

“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.”

“Everyone wants to be successful. Very few people are willing to pay the price.”

“Everything that is easy and guaranteed to succeed has already been done.”

“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward into the night.”

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

“Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.”

“Done is better than perfect.”

“Seek truth over comfort.”

“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of its rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

“Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“Doing hard things eliminates hardship.”

“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”

“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk for the sake of progress and growth. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”

“The Struggle is not failure, but it causes failure. Especially if you are weak. Always if you are weak. Most people are not strong enough. Every great entrepreneur from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg went through the Struggle and struggle they did, so you are not alone. But that does not mean that you will make it. You may not make it. That is why it is the Struggle. The Struggle is where greatness comes from.”

“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.”

“Get uncomfortable being uncomfortable.”

“The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.”

“Great things never came from comfort zones.”

“What is easy is seldom excellent.”

“The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.”

“Winners are simply willing to do what losers won’t.”

“The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you’ll realize that it wasn’t really all that comfortable.”

“Judge your successes by what you had to give up in order to get them.”

“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way with determination and enthusiasm.”

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”

“The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing.”

“To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.”

“Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.”

“If we only did things that would be easy, we wouldn’t actually be doing anything. We’d just be practicing things we already knew.”

“If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.”

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

“Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process.”

“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”

“It’s always the hard part that creates value.”

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.”

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

“Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.”

“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”

“Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow.”

“The things that hurt, instruct.”

“The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.”