Struggle Quotes

Struggles, challenges and obstacles are nothing but the doorways to future blessings.

~ Hafiz

At the end of your struggles, challenges, and obstacles comes the mental strength to cross many boundaries in the future.

~ Hafiz

What else other than success can happen to anyone who refuses to stay down in the midst of any struggle, challenge or obstacle?

~ Hafiz

At the very end of every struggle comes a precious reward that worth all your blood, sweat and tears.

~ Hafiz

You have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad (jihad alakbar).”His followers asked him what that greater jihad was. “The struggle against your passionate soul,” he replied.‘So what does this greater jihad entail?’ I asked him.‘It is the effort to practise our faith,’ Gai replied. ‘To pray five times every day is an effort, to veil one’s selfish desires and conduct life in accordance with Islamic ethics and laws. The greatest “spiritual warriors” are the saints armed not with weapons but with prayer and prayer beads.’ While it all made sense I wanted to know more about the idea that we needed to go out and fight jihad.

~ Kristiane Backer

In the learning process, a learner does encounter some difficulty. But with diligent, you will master the act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle.

~ Lance Conrad

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

~ Christopher G. Moore

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground and rots, never finding appreciation in the taste of mouths.

~ Anthony Liccione

The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.

~ Rudolf Rocker

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

~ Yvon Chouinard

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through.

~ Lee Thompson

Becoming unshakeable through this storm.

~ Nikki Rowe

When people fuck with you, you gotta choice. You can fuck back or swallow down. Swallow down enough times and you start to choke. Or you can learn to accept. Let go. Breathe easy.

~ Kit De Waal

[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson]An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted) and humanism (a term he ignored) produced during the present century, all the more powerful for its lucidity and moderation, its wit and wisdom. It may now seem old-fashioned, but during those confused alarms of struggle and fight between the ignorant armies of left and right, thousands of readers must have taken inspiration from Richard Robinson's rational defence of rationalism.It is a pity that it is now out of print, when there is still so much nonsense and so little sense in the world.

~ Nicolas Walter

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

~ Uri Avnery

We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship.

~ Russell Eric Dobda

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

~ Tim Wise

In response to this fatal alliance of savage capitalism in the West with Israeli racism, exclusion and colonial subjugation, the global movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel presents not only a progressive, anti racist [3], sophisticated, sustainable, moral and effective form of civil non-violent resistance, but also a real chance of becoming the political catalyst and moral anchor for a strengthened, reinvigorated international social movement capable of reaffirming the rights of all humans to freedom, equality and dignity and the right of nations to self determination.

~ Omar Barghouti

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

~ B. Margoliouth

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

~ Jerome

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows... It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence... Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

~ Edward O. Wilson

It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change.

~ Paul Bamikole

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

~ Brandi L. Bates

...and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath.

~ John Steinbeck

Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.

~ Dan Harris

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: This is for my benefit.

~ Chris Prentiss

Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!

~ Napoleon Hill

The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfect time.

~ Napz Cherub Pellazo

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

~ Helen Keller

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

~ Tom Conrad

You struggle alone. But rejoice in success with many.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

According to Islam, whenever we are struck by illness or misfortune or someone hurts us, there is a higher purpose behind it, which we may not understand at the time,’ one of them said to me. ‘That’s where trust comes in. Through suffering, God helps us to better ourselves and make good our mistakes. It is a form of purification and also God’s way of testing the strength of our faith and the goodness of our character.’ Another lady suggested I look on the bright side.‘Suffering draws us closer to God and that is our aim in life,’ she said. Then she quoted Rumi who had said, ‘It is pain that draws man to his Lord, because when he is well, he doesn’t remember the Lord.’ I tried to look at the positive and believe that there was a higher, spiritual perspective on what I had just been through, and all the advice I was given helped me a lot. But it took quite a while for my heart to catch up with my mind.

~ Kristiane Backer

For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there.

~ Cara Rosalie Olsen