Your Top 100 Struggle Quotes To Help You Win In Life

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Life is hard. That’s a given. We are always meant to struggle- to become strong, to be worthy of life, and to have complete satisfaction when we ultimately reach our goals.

The struggles we encounter in life are what make us grow, and make us want to try harder, strive harder, and go further. It is our struggles that allow us to appreciate and cherish the ecstatic feelings of joy, the warmth of happiness, the calm that comes from having peace of mind, and the awareness of the present moment.

Our struggles are what makes success taste so much better. It amplifies our sense of accomplishment and pride in having overcome all of the challenges, obstacles, and difficulties that littered our path toward achievement.

So, with that in mind, we present the top 100 struggle quotes in the following sections to help you stay strong, keep going, and win in this journey we call life.

100 Struggle quotes

Quotes about life struggles

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
– Leroy Satchel Paige

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals- this alone is worth the struggle.
– William Osler

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
– Wilma Rudolph

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
– Seneca

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.
– Napoleon Hill

No matter what struggles I come across, I will keep going, because I have the will and strength to overcome it all. All my greatest accomplishments, I once thought I would never achieve, but I keep on succeeding every challenge that faces me. No matter what is beyond my control, nothing will ever make me less than a woman. I am and will always be a powerful woman.
– Victoria Enriquez

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
– John Milton

When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I must do this’.
– Toni Sorenson

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
– Epictetus

Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
– John Wooden

The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.
– Deepak Chopra

I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon my strength.
– Alexandra Elle

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

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
– Winona LaDuke

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
– Thomas Paine

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder–if not impossible–to lose.
– Sarah Dessen

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.
– Aaron Lauritsen

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

As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.
– Santosh Kalwar

Quotes about life’s a struggle

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
– David Gemmell

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
– Frederick Douglass

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
– Brene Brown

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
– Roy T. Bennett

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
– Albert Camus

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle…you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.
– G.I. Gurdjieff

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

There is no life without struggle.
– Santosh Kalwar

Without struggle, success has no value.
– Aaron Lauritsen

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
– Bernice Johnson Reagon

The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream…a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!
– T.F. Hodge

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.
– Suzy Kassem

Each man has his own struggle. He struggles to achieve his purpose, passion, and zeal towards life. And each man has to struggle to exist and in the process find his happiness.
– Avijeet Das

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

It is a balm to our worried heart to know that whatever struggle we are engaged in is part of the universal human story.
– Lisa Marchiano

You will find strength, if you endure your struggle enough.
– Lailah Gifty Akita

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas Edison

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Life can be a struggle quotes

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
– Steve Maraboli

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
– Malcolm S. Forbes

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.
– Greg Kincaid

Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.
– Vironika Tugaleva

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.
– Lailah Gifty Akita

when we’re experiencing difficulties it’s also important to remember that the struggles won’t last forever and that the goals we set mattered to us for a reason.
– Jessica Marie Baumgartner

The journey always goes, but it isn’t easy. It is always wrapped up with struggles and surprises.
– Nasir Ali

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

You will struggle. You will be mocked. You will be alone. The world will not give you recognition. The world will not give you, your due. Against all odds, if you still persist and create your art, it will be a victory. It will be your victory. Finally, you would win.
– Avijeet Das

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
– Malcolm Gladwell

The effort involved in splitting the wood will be amply repaid by the warmth that it brings to the house. However, at the point that the axe becomes heavy and my arms get sore, the idea of the warmth goes cold.
– Craig D. Lounsbrough

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.
– Barbara Haines Howett

Every example throughout the history of humanity shows that only deprivation and struggle create a human life worthy of the name.
– Pentti Linkola

Let the darkest times reveal the brightest you!
– Somya Kedia

Those who overcome great challenges will be changed, and often in unexpected ways. For our struggles enter our lives as unwelcome guests, but they bring valuable gifts. And once the pain subsides, the gifts remain. These gifts are life’s true treasures, bought at great price, but cannot be acquired in any other way.
– Steve Goodier

You can’t achieve success by avoiding struggle.
– Pawan Pandit

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

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

Just because those around you do not constantly tell you what they are going through in their personal life, it does not mean they are living in a fairy tale.
– Auliq Ice

A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered.
– Mehmet Murat ildan

Real-life 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

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
– Drew Barrymore

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

When you have Nothing to Lose, Remember you are standing at the Winning position. For the hard times have got you stronger, and what you achieve now will be a remarkable trophy for your battles.
– Somya Kedia

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves. I prefer…incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.
– Daniel Day Lewis

Those who strive have found strength in their struggle.
– Lailah Gifty Akita

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach

The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
– Oprah Winfrey

Being open about your journey and your struggle with finding your purpose gives people a chance to try and help.
– Vee Kativhu

If you attempt to arrange people, places, and things so they don’t disturb you, it will begin to feel like life is against you. You’ll feel that life is a struggle and that every day is heavy because you have to control and fight with everything.
– Michael A. Singer

I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle.
– Isabel Allende

Struggle time is the best time of any entrepreneur’s life because that moment of happiness and sadness is a deadly combination which gives an absolutely unique feeling to be successful in future.
– Anuj Jasani

Between something and everything exists ‘nothing’…. that’s where we struggle…
– Jaya Bhateja

Everyone is struggling for something everyday so don’t think that you are the only one who is facing challenges.
– Anuj Jasani

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.
– Shannon L. Alder

We must be vigilant, even of each other, but mostly of ourselves. What my time in the cave taught me is that the ultimate life-and-death struggle is with ourselves. Foreign invaders might kill my body, but only I could kill my spirit.
– Viet Thanh Nguyen

Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful. You are going to be great after the struggles.
– Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

Don’t be stuck on the struggle that you refuse to be a part of life, there’s so many people waiting on you to show them that they deserve to live, so breath a bit and live life even in the struggles.
– Unknown

Love and life struggle quotes

I’m not interested in passion and love for their own sake – without the struggle of life, they’re just fluff.
– Mira Nair

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 Kübler-Ross

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
– Vince Lombardi

You’ve got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn’t define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don’t have to struggle to be good enough for.
– Deb Caletti

So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself.
– Slavoj Žižek

You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
– Carrie Ryan

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

having nothing to struggle against, they have nothing to struggle for.
– Charles Bukowski

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
– Audre Lorde

Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?
– Tom Stoppard

the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
– David Foster Wallace

We can meekly take our beatings, and die like lemmings, finding solace in the belief that we shall one day inherit the earth. Or, we can plunge into the chaos with eyes wide open, taking comfort instead from the bruises, scars, and broken bones which prove that we fought to live and die as gods.
– J.K. Franko

Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons.
– Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go. – Drew Gerald
– Amit Ray

Life is a battle between fear and courage. When fear wins, you lose; when courage wins, you struggle to get stronger.
– Debasish Mridha

The joy of life is living, is to put out all one’s powers as far as they will go; that the measure of power is obstacle overcome;
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I always knew I would survive, because the fire inside me was stronger than the fires they tried to destroy me with.
– Glenn Hefley

In great struggle, you must pray for great strength to overcome the test of time.
– Lailah Gifty Akita

All big stories are born with struggles, When little by little heroes grew from littleness.
– Tshetrim Tharchen

Seeing the good in life’s struggles

We often wish that our lives become easier. We see struggles as something negative that only makes our lives more difficult. It is something that prevents us from reaching our objectives.

However, if we only focus on the negative, we will never see the positive aspects of life’s struggles. Sure, it would be fun if there were no struggles to contend with, but would you have enjoyed the things you have now if you had not struggled or fought enough in life to obtain them?

You see, the struggle would make your achievements all the more fulfilling; there is no sense of accomplishment when everything is handed to you on a silver platter. When there is no struggle, there can be no success.

And from that frame of reference, you can then see the good in life’s hardships and struggles.

What is the importance of struggle?

The temporary discomfort of struggle yields significant benefits. Here are 5 reasons why struggles are essential in life.

1. Struggles offer lessons in life

Rejections, failures, or setbacks can be heartbreaking and make you want to give up.

However, when you try to reflect and analyze where you went wrong and think of ways to improve or correct your mistakes for future endeavors, your struggle has just become a life lesson, and life lessons are great tools that we can use in a variety of situations.

2. Struggles allow you to grow

You know you are alive when you feel pain. In addition, pain can also be an indicator of growth.

So when you are struggling right now, and feeling like things are not going your way, know that what you are going through, the pain, and the difficulties, are all part of the process of growing.

You will gain a better understanding of life and discover your purpose as a result of your pain and struggle. Something that you might overlook if everything is normal and easy. And the meanings you discover will ignite a fire within you that will help you grow and achieve in life.

So, be patient and aware that your difficult times are giving you the strength you need to move forward.

You will understand and appreciate everything once you have gotten over the hump and overcome your obstacles; it will certainly transform you into a much more spiritual, determined, and happy person.

3. Struggles improve your resilience

Every time you cope with and overcome a challenge, you strengthen your resilience. With each struggle, your resilience, or the process by which you adapt well in the face of trauma, tragedy, or significant stress, improves significantly.

As it stands, you have to be knocked down in order to learn how to get back up. And with each setback, you learn not only how to overcome them, but also how to embrace them.

You begin to realize that every challenge is an opportunity to learn and grow.

4. Struggles make you strong

We become stronger with each encounter with pain and difficult situations, just as muscles do with each exercise that stretches, strains, and pulls the muscles in difficult and even painful activities.

When you experience difficulties in life, your struggle to bounce back will help you become a much stronger person in life, with the courage, compassion, and empathy to continue on the path of growth and development.

Overcoming painful experiences allows you to question, realign, or otherwise update your values as you gain deep realizations or insights, all while improving your capabilities and challenging yourself to strive even harder.

5. You find happiness in your struggle

Life is the pursuit of happiness. Or is it, really?

We all want to be happy, it’s a given, but what is happiness without the accompanying struggle? Will it not be just a bland feeling? Because without the struggle, difficulty, and challenges to compare it to, happiness will not feel the same as it does when you achieve it by overcoming your life’s struggles.

In other words, happiness is meaningless without struggle.

So, if you are going through hell, struggle on. Maintain a positive attitude and be grateful that you are experiencing them. It will pass, and if it doesn’t kill you, it will only make you stronger and happier.

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