These Struggle quotes will inspire you. Struggle, to exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass, to move or place (something) with an effort.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging struggle quotes, struggle sayings, and struggle proverbs.
Inspirational Struggle Quotes
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.” ~ Will Smith
- “Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.” ~ Will Smith , Struggle quotes about pain
- “Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn’t always lovely, but it’s a beautiful ride.” ~ Gary Allan
- “The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~ Helen Keller , Struggle quotes about life
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“Don’t expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it.” ~ Damon Dash
- “Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
- “If you fight you won’t always win. But if you don’t fight you will always lose” ~ Bob Crow
- “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~ Frederick Douglass
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“Man has become great through struggle” ~ Adolf Hitler
- “No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” ~ Og Mandino
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“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.” ~ Robert G. Allen
- “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
- “If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you’re really not ready to be successful.” ~ Kevin Hart , Struggle quotes give up
- “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “There’s no satisfaction without a struggle first.” ~ Marty Liquori
- “Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” ~ Steven Furtick
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“When you struggle to reach for something you don’t know, that’s where most of the interesting stuff is.” ~ Herbie Hancock
- “Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” ~ Wendy Mass
- “The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Life’s a climb. But the view is great.” ~ Miley Cyrus
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“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” ~ Og Mandino
- “But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.” ~ Paulo Coelho
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“Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
- “Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.” ~ Shelby Steele
- “Unfortunately this earth is not a fairyland, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.” ~ Martin Bormann
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“Life is a beautiful struggle.” ~ Talib Kweli
- “I find my own pain and others’ difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they’ll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it’s a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.” ~ Danny Boyle
- “We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” ~ John Steinbeck
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“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” ~ Rosa Luxemburg
- “I find my own pain and others’ difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they’ll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it’s a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.” ~ Danny Boyle
- “We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” ~ John Steinbeck
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“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” ~ Rosa Luxemburg
- “The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.” ~ Samuel Smiles
- “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” ~ Peter Marshall
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“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.” ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
- “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- “Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.” ~ Lucretius
- “All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” ~ Pope Paul VI
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“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.” ~ Albert Camus
- “The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.” ~ Pema Chodron
- “The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile.” ~ Boniface Wimmer
- “Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don’t follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the ‘trigger event,’ we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice.” ~ John G. Miller
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“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don’t follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the ‘trigger event,’ we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice.” ~ John G. Miller , Struggle quotes about emotional
- “Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!” ~ Stevie Wonder
- “Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.” ~ Andre Gide
