The hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend, For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart, let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Have you ever noticed that if there’s a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?

I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

Be more concerned with finding the right way than in having it your way.

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.