When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you

If you want to be tougher mentally, it is simple: Be tougher. Don’t meditate on it.” These words of Jocko’s helped one listener — a drug addict — get sober after many failed attempts. The simple logic struck a chord: “Being tougher” was, more than anything, a decision to be tougher. It’s possible to immediately “be tougher,” starting with your next decision. Have trouble saying “no” to dessert? Be tougher. Make that your starting decision. Feeling winded? Take the stairs anyway. Ditto. It doesn’t matter how small or big you start. If you want to be tougher, be tougher.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you’re willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

Life gets easier when you don’t blame other people and focus on what you can control. — JAMES CLEAR

The hard things got easier the more you did them.

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Life doesn't get easier, you just get stronger.

Every day, work harder on yourself than anything else. ‘Cause if you become more intelligent, more valuable, more skilled, you can add more value to other people.

The harder the workout, the easier the day.

Sometimes the hardest things in life are what make you the strongest.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Life conditions you. It swings at you, it kicks you while you’re down and it stamps on you.
And yet you survive and walk around as the new and improved version of yourself. Because the challenges that some people still find hard, you’ve overcome.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.