150+ Inspirational Quotes About Life and Struggles

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

Life is a beautiful struggle. – Talib Kweli

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. – Mother Teresa

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights. – Louise Fitzhugh

Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody! – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is a struggle, but not warfare. – John Burroughs

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.             – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life is life and there are always going to be struggling. But when you’re doing the next right thing it seems to make everything a little easier, a little bit better and a lot happier.   – Ryan Leaf

Life is not a struggle. It’s a wiggle. – Peter McWilliams

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain. – L. Lionel Kendrick

Life is one long struggle in the dark. – Lucretius

Life is struggle. Even to stand up is a struggle against the law of gravity and I think that the joy of life in the struggle itself – not the victory – because if it were we’d all lose. We’re all gonna croak. We all lose the battle of life so if you can’t find fun in the fight to live and to live to the fullest then you’re a failure already before you even start.                             – George Lincoln Rockwell

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds. – Ana Claudia Antunes

Life requires overcoming challenges and obstacles of many types. Battling our struggles and fears determines who we are. – David Weatherford

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Life’s struggles are necessary for growth. – Auliq Ice

Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. – Bruce Lee

Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There are disappointment and obstacles in everybody’s life. I feel like I was writing ‘Second Chance’ not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled. – El DeBarge

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.     – Albert Einstein

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. – Honore de Balzac

Meeting life halfway isn’t a one-time event. Meeting Life halfway is a daily struggle.           – Kevin Neece

Music is a mysterious phenomenon – it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of our daily life. – Andrew W.K.

My family has equally suffered abductions, attacks and life threats, but I have continued my struggle for justice. – Asma Jahangir

Not many great things have ever been done without struggling, stand up for your dream, a definite plan and burning desire can get you there. – Okorote Emmanuel

Nothing is given to man on earth – the struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. – Andrew Bernstein

Once all struggles are grasped, miracles are possible. – Mao Zedong

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. – Tennessee Williams

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.              – Sigmund Freud

Our prayers can and should be focused on the practical, everyday struggles of life.              – Joseph B. Wirthlin

Out of all this struggle, a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.                – John Steinbeck

‘Padman‘ was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me. –  Arunachalam Muruganantham

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.              – Theodore Newton Vail

Religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. – Madame de Stael

Sometimes when hardships knock, it’s just life. Do not take it personally.                           – Naide P Obiang

Sometimes, life’s challenges are tough to deal with. You will succeed if you focus your thoughts on how to overcome the challenge. – Catherine Pulsifer

Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.                    – Friedrich Nietzsche

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. – David Lynch

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. – Napoleon Hill

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

Struggles are a part of life but they are not the totality of what life entails so we must remember to discover all the other ingredients that make life worth living. – Unknown

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

Struggles not only make us into stronger, better and wiser people, they also let us learn more about ourselves and our purpose in life. – Auliq Ice

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. – Amos Bronson Alcott

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you. – Swami Vivekananda

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honour. 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

The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need. – Albert Einstein

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Molière

The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph. – Nick Vujicic

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It’s not easy. But absolutely worth it. – Robin S. Sharma

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. – Pierre de Coubertin

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

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

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. – Blaise Pascal

The struggle has been a part and parcel of my life. – Mamata Banerjee

The struggle is good; it hardens us. The struggle is necessary; it toughens us.                   – Avijeet Das

The struggle is part of your life. You can’t live without struggle. Life means struggle. No life, no struggle. Only the person who is sleeping in the graveyard has no struggle.             – Birister Sharma

The struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it’s right in front of your face. – Danny Dreyer

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

The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up. – Robert Tew

The struggles, challenges, and obstacles that it takes to succeed in life are what makes success more valuable. Nothing great comes easy, and nothing easy can ever equate to greatness. – Edmond Mbiaka

The triumph can’t be had without the struggle. – Wilma Rudolph

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there’s a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding – that existence is a struggle.              – Harvey Keitel

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good. – Susan Glaspell

There is no gain without a struggle. – Martin Luther King Jr.

There’s nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it – the creative survival tactics – I think that the good is way better than the bad. – Esperanza Spalding

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.                    – Roberto Aguire

To live life, you need problems. If you get everything you want the minute you want it, then what’s the point of livin’? – Jake the Dog

To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India. – Rajiv Gandhi

Unfortunately, this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. – Martin Bormann

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future. – Steve Maraboli

We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it’s really painful and hard. Sometimes it’s really funny. ‘Foxcatcher’ is kind of like a metaphor for that. – Mark Schultz

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations. – L. Lionel Kendrick

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. – R. C. Allen

What the life of Nelson Mandela teaches us is that life is full of challenges, hardships and misfortunes and we must forever strengthen our resolve to forge ahead and achieve our dreams in spite of the roadblocks erected on our paths. – Abraham Mutwol

Whatever life gives you, even if it hurts, just be strong and act like you’re okay. Strong walls shake but never collapse. – Unknown

Whatever the struggle, continue the climb. It may be only one step to the summit.                – Diane Westlake

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions? Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices… people are struggling with those profound issues.        – Hillary Clinton

When I am struggling with my life I look up towards the sky and say; Lord you take over.   – Joan Disantis

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba

When we are caught in a struggle with psychological problems we often put life on hold, believing that our pain needs to lessen before we can really begin to live again.                 – Steven C. Hayes

When we face a life storm, our faith is challenged most often by God’s seeming silence when we need him the most. Life storms help us to explore the reality of trust when circumstances challenge our faith and tempt us to doubt God’s promises.                          – John Krohn PhD

When you fear your struggles, your struggles consume you. When you face your struggles, you overcome them. – Unknown

When you struggle to reach for something you don’t know, that’s where most of the interesting stuff is. – Herbie Hancock

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed! – Bertolt Brecht

With all our mastery over the powers of nature, we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. – Frederick Soddy

Without life’s struggles, we cannot grow into the person that we are meant to become.      – Auliq Ice

Without struggle, there can be no progress. – Frederick Douglass

You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way you face and overcome challenges of life. Use everything in your advantage.                – Amit Ray

You can’t solve anyone else’s life for them. But then, if you see someone struggling with a heavy load, isn’t it forbidden to walk on without helping them? – Naomi Alderman

You should never look at somebody and say, ‘I wish I had their life,’ because you never really know what struggles they’re going through. – Keke Palmer

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.                       – Iyanla Vanzant

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