Choose the Harder Road Quotes

“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

“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.”

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

“Great things never came from comfort zones.”

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

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

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

“Seek truth over comfort.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”

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

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

“Get uncomfortable being uncomfortable.”

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

“The cold is your warm friend.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”

“The things that hurt, instruct.”

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

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

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

“Growth comes at the point of resistance.”

“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.”

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

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