Countries are very reluctant to impose short term pain for long term gain.
Actions aimed at supporting deleveraging and balance-sheet repair - such as recognizing losses, writing down assets, and recapitalizing banks - carry longer-term benefits but short-term costs.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.
As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.
Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.
If you will make the sacrifices now that most people aren't willing to make, later on you will be able to live as those folks will never be able to live.
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
Pain now is better than pain deferred.
Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.
Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.
Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.
It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they require eliminating protections for vested interests in the short term for the sake of greater long-term prosperity.
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.
