Long-term benefit Quotes

Whatever pain we go through now, our suffering will provide for the future of the next generations.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

The truth is, politicians want to be reelected, and no European leader sill risk his or her future by overusing a policy that us costly in the short run but possibly beneficial in the long run.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.

I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.

Burke ever held, and held rightly, that it can seldom be right . . . to sacrifice a present benefit for a doubtful advantage in the future. . . . It is therefore the happiness of our own contemporaries that is our main concern

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.