Struggle Quotes

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

~ Tahir Shah

His face was pale, and he dropped to the floor so that he was half kneeling, half sitting before her. Please. I can...help you.No. She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Her mind felt clearer now. Everything made more sense when she wasn't so hungry. I don't think I want the help you have.He cradled his bloody arm and tried to stand. This isn't right. You aren't right. You aren't suppose to be here.But I am.

~ Melissa Marr

Well, we all come to it in time - we are broken down to ground-level, and must construct ourselves anew. If we survive, we become stronger: with few exceptions we do not become better. For most of us, when all else has failed, turn to the demon. (The Overseer)

~ Albert E. Cowdrey

i need someonewho knows struggleas well as i dosomeonewilling to hold my feet in their lapon days it is too difficult to standthe type of person who givesexactly what i needbefore i even know i need itthe type of lover who hears meeven when i do not speakis the type of understandingi demand- the type of lover i need

~ Rupi Kaur

Real life is just another stage.Just another stage where I have to look and actLike I have everything put together;everything neat, perfect, and in order,when in reality I’m slowly dying,Slowly decaying, screaming and clawing,at this little box I’ve been put into, Trying desperately to escape.

~ Justin Wetch

I am called to enter into the inner sanctuary of my own being where God has chosen to dwell. The only way to that place is prayer, unceasing prayer, Many struggles and much pain can clear the way but I am certain that only unceasing prayer can let me enter it.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.

~ Mitch Albom

A warrior confronts colonialism with the truth in order to regenerate authenticity and recreate a life worth living and principles worth dying for. The struggle is to restore connections severed by the colonial machine. The victory is an integrated personality, a cohesive community, and the restoration of respectful and harmonious relationships.

~ Taiaiake Alfred

I don't appreciated how often people hide their scars and doubts. Really, it's not fair to people who are struggling, to go on believing that everyone else just has it totally together and never has one bad thought in their lives.

~ Emery Lord

He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.

~ Elizabeth D. Marie

I thought and pondered -- vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations

~ Mary Shelly

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

~ Iain Cameron Williams

I have seen plenty of ‘Struggle minus Success’ stories where you are forced to ask yourself ‘Why to him/her?’. There are few questions unanswered as it isn’t that hard work is the sole companion to achieve greatness because there are people still toiling for their first good break, first high salaried job, first best employee award, first terrific trip abroad, first buck-up cheer to perform excellently, first smile to relax you out from the stress, first pat to motivate you further, first kiss to give a feeling that whatever happened to you till then was just a ‘Test’. Unfortunately, the test never ends for many.

~ Bhavik Sarkhedi

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

~ Marty Rubin

When we regularly struggle to achieve the goals, either we get used to the struggle or we find a way to avoid the struggle. If we get used to the struggle than every new task will increase the distance between our struggle & goals, but if we find a way to avoid the struggle the goals will be as close as the shortcut to any destination.

~ Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

To awaken to the living dream within one’s life and remain awake in a world trying to lull everyone to sleep involves repeated struggle, yet also presents something truly worth fighting for.

~ Michael Meade

I’m using Mao as my inspiration. “Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle.” I’m back in business, baby. You don’t know you’re stuck until you get moving.

~ Hanif Kureishi

Conflict is the essence of the self.

~ J.krishnamurti

In life we struggle to make sense of it all.When we should just except the way life is and make it better for all concerned.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Justice, as it turned out, was a lot harder than war. War was largely a series of technical questions, a matter of taking living human bodies and making them dead. There were infinite variations in the tactics and the strategy, of course, nuances in weaponry and technique, but the basic premise was bedrock: you’d done it right if you were alive at the end of the day, and the other poor fool was not.

~ Brian Staveley

It's a struggle but you have to keep going.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The Struggle is in your name, Samori - you were named for Samori Toure, who struggled against French colonizers for the right to his own black body. He died in captivity, but the profits of that struggle and others like it are ours, even when the object of our struggle, as is so often true, escapes our grasp.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

~ Philip K. Dick

... Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's individuality on the world, one has to work against the fabric of modern culture itself and uphold ultimate values in the face of purely instrumental and ever more 'rational' forces.

~ Nicholas Gane

Why does he strive to reach for that star? It's the very star he lives upon! He works. He reaches. He struggles. He seeks. He finds! ...Never knowing he possessed it all along.

~ Kate Mcgahan

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

~ Philip Roth

Success has interesting phenomenon -The more hardships you face for it, The more glorious and inspirational it will be

~ Raja Shakeel Mushtaque

Hardships scorch as sun burns each entity to glow it golden.

~ Raja Shakeel Mushtaque

I only laugh when I don't know on what I'm laughing to.

~ Moozy Mathers

I have all the power, but you will destroy me. “Only your walls, Lark.” He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew he’d find me there hiding from him.

~ Amy Harmon

Any person striving to accomplish anything worthwhile will risk their personal vivacity by assuming responsibility that exceeds their talent and abilities and work beyond their physical strength and emotional stamina. A motivated person will endure loneliness and despair and open-mindedly accept righteous criticism.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I smile. No plan can take everything into account. Other people will raise their heads, others will desert. Time will go on spreading victory and defeat among those who pursue the struggle.I sip with satisfaction. We deserve the warmth of baths. May the days be aimless.Do not advance the action according to a plan.

~ Luther Blissett

You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.

~ Fatima Bhutto

After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. However, for that feeling of euphoria, you have to slog. After all, nothing comes for free!

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

What is the purpose? Do no ask. No one knows, not even God, as He advances along with us, He too, searching and being exposed to danger; He too is given a struggle. Hunger and injustice exist in the heart, as does abundance of darkness. The things you see are not specters; no matter how much blow, they will not be dispelled. They are flesh and bone. Touch them; they exist. Don't you hear a cry in the air? They are crying. What are they crying? Help! To whom they are crying? You! You: every man. Rise up. Our duty is not to ask questions, but to clasp hands one and all and mount the ascent. (Report to Greco)

~ N. Kazantzakis

Struggle forms character

~ Lauren Groff

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

~ Angela Y. Davis

Sometimes life just hits you, right in the face. And it’s alright. Because I, for one, think it’s kinda cool to have a black eye every now and then. And I think it’s definitely okay to have scars, and it’s definitely okay to hurt, and be in pain and show it. And that’s why we have friends in this life. And it’s why we have music.

~ Hayley Williams

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

~ Mercedes Lackey

Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

~ G.i. Gurdjieff