Struggle Quotes

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

~ Anthony Liccione

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.

~ Thomas Mann

Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last.

~ Auliq Ice

If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.

~ Hercules

Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve.

~ Jeffrey R. Holland

A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the end, and the two come together, only then will it feel as if the candle was tipped and all the wax came pouring out, when the flame is revived, long and glowing again.

~ Anthony Liccione

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

When problems come, remain calm in two cases. One when you know you can solve them so smile; second when you know you can’t so be silent.

~ Vikrmn

O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly!

~ Kobayashi Issa

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

~ Henry James

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.

~ Tahir Shah

And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now—my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

~ Jeff Goins

Nothing comes easy in life even heart has to beat 72 times in a minute to keep you alive.

~ K Sajwan

Love shouldn't feel like the Hunger Games. There should not be a constant struggle for survival.

~ Amanda Mosher

It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Sometimes I wonder, how different life would have been if everything was based upon perception. No struggle to find the truth, just a believe build upon what we see. Sun could be a ball, Earth would have been flat and I would have eaten Sun using my ice candy as a chopstick.

~ Swati Verma

Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy

~ Paul Bourget

By the time I visited those battlefields, I knew that they had been retrofitted as the staging ground for a great deception, and this was my only security, because they could no longer insult me by lying to me. I knew—and the most important thing I knew was that, somewhere deep with them, they knew too. I like to think that knowing might have kept me from endangering you, that having understood and acknowledged the anger, I could control it. I like to think that it could have allowed me to speak the needed words to the woman and then walk away. I like to think this, but I can’t promise it. The struggle is really all I have for you because it is the only portion of this world under your control.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I do not believe we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves. And still I urge you to struggle. Struggle for the memory of your ancestors. Struggle for wisdom. Struggle for the warmth of The Mecca. Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, for your name. But do not struggle for the Dreamers. Hope for them. Pray for them, if you are so moved. But do not pin your struggle on their conversion. The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field for their Dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all. The Dream is the same habit that endangers this planet, the same habit that sees our bodies stowed away in prisons and ghettos.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.

~ Derek Raymond

I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

~ Mercedes Lackey

Leave me alone, I can’t struggle when I have the whole world on my side.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

If you commit then struggle to fulfill it at any cost otherwise regret it.

~ Samreen Quyyum

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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. Now, I know that might sound a bit simplistic. But, too often we're led to believe that struggling is a bad thing, or that we struggle because we're doing something wrong. I disagree. I look at struggle as an opportunity to grow. True struggle happens when you can sense what is not working for you and you're willing to take the appropriate action to correct the situation. Those who accomplish change are willing to engage the struggle.

~ Danny Dreyer

Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.

~ Jason Versey

You must mentally prepare to conquer any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life lessons build strength, and life is truly A Beautiful Struggle

~ Andrea Walker

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Struggling is hard, so is achieving success; so you may as well choose success, over time it’ll seem easier.

~ Rob Liano

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.

~ Leon Trotsky

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.

~ Hiroko Sakai

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, I AM HERE... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...?

~ Hiroko Sakai

My only struggle has been trying to empower people who falsely believe that they are already empowered.

~ Paul Bamikole

The ability to win increases when you do not fear to struggle.

~ Debasish Mridha

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

~ Max Horkheimer

Since the day I’d left Yoroido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me.

~ Arthur Golden

Death kept waiting for its second course on the kitchen floor, but Amila’s morals struggled to prepare its main meal.

~ Gayendra Abeywardane

Will doesn't have to be struggle!

~ Tae Yun Kim