Choose the Harder Road Quotes

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

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

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

“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

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

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“The greatest achievements come from the hardest problems”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Get uncomfortable being uncomfortable.”

“To achieve greatness, you must do the things that make people great.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“No pressure, no diamonds.”

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

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

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

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

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

“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”

“It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Seek truth over comfort.”

“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.”

“Doing hard things eliminates hardship.”

“The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”

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

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

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

“The things that hurt, instruct.”

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

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

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

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

“There can be no triumph without sacrifice.”

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

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

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

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

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

“Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.”

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

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

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

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

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

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

“If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren't achieved when you hide out in a place where you're nice and cozy.”

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

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

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

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

“Great things never came from comfort zones.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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