Choose the Harder Road Quotes

Do what is easy and your life gets hard.  Do what is hard and your life gets easier.  The tougher path is where the growth and the openings live.  This Potential path holds history's toughest quotes on choosing difficulty on purpose.  Scroll through and put them to work.
“Do what is easy, and your life will be hard. Do what is hard, and your life will become easy.”
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“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
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“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.”
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“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.”
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“Winners are simply willing to do what losers won’t.”
— Unknown
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“The greatest achievements come from the hardest problems”
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“Great companies are built by people who are willing to do the hard things”
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“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”
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“What is easy to do is also easy not to do.”
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“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
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“Doing hard things eliminates hardship.”
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“If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.”
— Unknown
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“Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.”
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“Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.”
— Lisa Su
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“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.”
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“It’s always the hard part that creates value.”
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“The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.”
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“To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.”
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“Nothing is going to be easy. Get over it.”
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“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.”
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“Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.”
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“The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing.”
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“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.”
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“Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.”
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“What is easy is seldom excellent.”
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“The best strategy is to make friends with the discomfort of effort.”
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“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
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“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.”
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“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”
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“Judge your successes by what you had to give up in order to get them.”
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“In this world, it’s not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
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“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”
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“There can be no triumph without sacrifice.”
— Unknown
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“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
— Unknown
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“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.”
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“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.”
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“Pursuing your passion should be rephrased as choosing the suffering that you love”
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“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.”
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“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”
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“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.”
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“It takes guts to work hard enough to get the things you want.”
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“There can be no progress, no achievement, without sacrifice, and a man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices.”
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“You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too. That’s part of it.”
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“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.”
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“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.”
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“You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do.”
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“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
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“Everyone wants to be successful. Very few people are willing to pay the price.”
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“Done is better than perfect.”
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“Better is the enemy of good.”
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