Quotes about Short-term

To retrain the imagination and the natural impulses to resist the murky short-term delights of the pagan world is harder still. To make and sustain marriages of genuine mutual submission is perhaps hardest of all. Compromises and second-best solutions are easy. To go for the full version of discipleship is to sign on for spiritual warfare.

In essence, engaging in sin is exchanging a short-term positive for a long-term negative, for after it's over sin stings us with the long-term consequences of death.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Once you have that sense of mission, you have the essence of your own proactivity. You have the vision and the values which direct your life. You have the basic direction from which you set your long- and short-term goals.

God's true love pretty much nullifies dating as we know it. . . . It seems that dating as we have come to know it doesn't really prepare us for marriage; instead it can be a training ground for divorce. We cannot practice life-long commitment in a series of short-term relationships.

Anger is like the white sugar of activist energy; it gives adrenaline in the short term but is debilitating in the long term. Love is the nutrition of the gods.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

I only really set short-term goals because I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.