Short Term Pain Quotes

#1. The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.

Sam Owen

#2. Short-term pain leads to long-term gain.

Charles F. Glassman

#3. Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

Tom DeMarco

#4. Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Seth Godin

#5. 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.

Milton Friedman

#6. Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

George Will

#7. And more than the quality of its institutions, what distinguishes a developed country from a developing one is the degree of consensus in its politics, and thus its ability to take actions to secure a better future despite short-term pain.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#8. Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.

Charles F. Glassman

#9. If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#10. Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

Tony Robbins

#11. The wonderful thing about digital process is that I can be cast in films that I would never be cast in. If I have it in my soul to play the character it doesn't matter what my face looks like, or my age. It's really liberating.

Jim Carrey

#12. The biggest problem occurs
when i try to forget you are nights,
cuz i ain't got control on my dreams ...

Abhishek Kumar Singh

#13. The bastard even refused to watch E.T.! Who doesn't love E.T., I ask you?

Ernest Cline

#14. Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state; they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.

David L. Conroy

#15. I believe every single woman could accomplish what I've accomplished.

Weili Dai

#16. One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

Criss Jami

#17. Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.

Jerry Falwell

#18. Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa

#19. U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

Christiane Amanpour

#20. Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself ...

Rumi

#21. Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

Margaret Atwood

#22. Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.

Ang Lee

#23. Not every story is true," he said. "Not every rumor is false.

Ridley Pearson

#24. I have had a lot of success with failure

Thomas A. Edison

#25. Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy.

Hilary Mantel

#26. Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value. Everything you do should be based on such an awareness, and not on material or self-centered ideas of value.

Shunryu Suzuki

#27. It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.

Donna Brazile

#28. Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

William Glasser