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.
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“If it’s too easy or it’s already been done, it’s probably not worth having.”
“Everything that is easy and guaranteed to succeed has already been done.”
“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.”
“If it was always easy, it wouldn’t be worthwhile.”
“The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.”
“What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.”
“The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
“The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way with determination and enthusiasm.”
“Consistently lean into adversity. Comfort and convenience is making you physically soft and mentally weak.”
“Easy never pays well.”
“What you're doing in the short term to make yourself comfortable is killing your potential.”
“All great things come with sacrifice.”
“Convenience and greatness cannot co-exist.”
“The comfortable road will never lead you to the person you are destined to be in your life, never.”
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
“Better to starve free than be a fat slave.”
“Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.”
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’”
“Too many easy victories can ruin a fighter just as much as a long line of defeats.”
“The distance between comfortable and comatose is surprisingly short.”
“Average is so popular because average is familiar.”
“Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.”
“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don’t believe in ”super-men,” for the world is full of capable men, but it’s the fellow with determination that wins out.”
“Mediocrity is not worth the trip.”
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”
“If it’s hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.”
“To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”
“Comfortable and Easy are short-term friends but long-term enemies. If you’re looking for growth, choose the challenge.”
“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”
“Persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.”
“No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.”
“The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.”
“It can be lovely to have a day where you do not push yourself, but it rarely works out well if you have a life where you do not push yourself.”
“At some point, success in nearly every field requires you to ignore an immediate reward in favor of a delayed reward.”
“We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.”
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person’s skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”
“Shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.”
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