Dora Russell Quotes

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

It would be far more comfortable for me to stay where I was in Connecticut, making 10 times more money and enjoying life than to come down here and subject myself to the kinds of discussions I've gone through for the last three days.

I think football saves many people. It can give you a life of luxury, but people don't see all the effort that goes in behind the scenes. That might mean not seeing your family or missing your mother's birthday; many players are so focused that they miss the birth of their children.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

Every advantage has its tax.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

I'm always perpetually out of my comfort zone.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.

I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

all success cloaks a surrender