Hard time Quote by Annette Herfkens

“There’s gratification in abstaining from the easy choice. Instant gratification can bring more suffering than pleasure. If I do the hard thing, the next…

— Cecily Wang

“don’t do things because they are easy. Nothing done with that motivation is worth doing. There are rare times in our lives when we…

— Wes Moore

“When the reward is not worth it, when you have to force yourself to do it, when you start changing because of it, and…

— Charbel Tadros

“But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or…

— Chang-rae Lee

“The numerous choices you have around yourself are often superficial; they don’t matter. The art lies in doing more with less. Minimal requirements, more…

— Vishal Ostwal

“Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing…

— Torron-Lee Dewar

“If you don’t feel rewarded by doing small steps and making gradual improvements, then you’ll rarely stick with something long enough to feel the…

— Derek Doepker

“There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Anything that we consider to be an accomplishment takes effort to achieve. If it were easy, it would not be nearly as gratifying. What…

— David Miller

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that…

— Ann Patchett

“Rewards do not undermine people’s intrinsic motivation for dull tasks because there is little or no intrinsic motivation to be undermined.”

— Daniel H. Pink

“It takes the fuel away from your endless, driving self-criticism. You will eventually be able to see more clearly that some things in life…

— Mark Williams