We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.
Some problems are better evaded than solved.
If you do what is easy, your life will be hard
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of habits and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.
If I want to pad the record, just fight pretenders, get a quick paycheck and keep moving on and racking up wins, that's not something I want to be known for.
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.
Sometimes guys avoid things they don't know how to do well.
I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.
We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.
The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.
A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.
