Life Struggle Quotes

Faces

...I
...don't
...know
...the real
...me ~ Ellen Hopkins

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight ~ Mike Tyson

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life. ~ Totaram Sanadhya

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is always struggle with eternal forces. ~ Eino Leino

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

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up. ~ Thalia

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle ... In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect. ~ Henry Moore

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. ~ King Hussein I

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things. ~ Rory Kinnear

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth. ~ Bob Marley

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion. ~ Iris Murdoch

My heart is strong,
I will not fail,
I won't be wronged,
I will prevail. ~ Alexandra Lanc

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. ~ Stephen Covey

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease. ~ Rene Dubos

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. ~ Oriana Fallaci

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment. ~ Richard Llewellyn

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. ~ Victor Hugo

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

You don't get what you want, you get what you can ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Every man has the right to struggle for his own existence and this right is valid only within the limits of morality! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness. ~ Marie-Luise Gothein

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

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

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life. ~ Rollo May

I think I've always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I'm dressed like a boy, when I'm dressed more masculine. ~ Jill Soloway

The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no life without struggle. ~ Santosh Kalwar

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. ~ Victor Hugo

Life is all about change. We constantly transform all our life. Struggle is nothing more than a signal and confirmation of the needed changes that are ahead of us on the road of our lives ~ Timothy Pina

Life sometimes is like tossing a coin in the air calling heads or tails, but it doesn't matter what side it lands on; life goes on. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life. ~ Gabourey Sidibe

Real life is just another stage.
Just another stage where I have to look and act
Like 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 just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life. ~ Michael Chang

There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life ... ~ Rex Harrison

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting ~ Milan Kundera

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it. ~ Solomon Northup

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ~ Edna Ferber

The integrity of the upright provides guiding principles that help him to achieve his vision. Hard work without integrity will lead to struggles and frustration ~ Prince Akwarandu

Have to Find

...life
...is
...a -
...gamble
...after
...all. ~ Ellen Hopkins

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy. ~ Paulo Coelho

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better. ~ Ashton Kutcher

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life. ~ Cesar Chavez

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ~ George A. Sheehan

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice. ~ Carl Bernstein

Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else. ~ Lindsey Vonn

Most of my experiences have been positive. I know I live a very good life. I'm severely overpaid, but there are people who are much more overpaid than I am. I've been very lucky, and I know that, because I see guys all the time who are struggling and can't make a dime, and they're much better actors than me. ~ Kurt Fuller

Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy. ~ Harold Ramis

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil. ~ Neil MacGregor

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me. ~ Lauren London

What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power. We're not thinking about any kind of struggles. We're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That's not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps. ~ Jerry Garcia

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. ~ William J.H. Boetcker

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life. ~ Henry Adams

life might not be the way you want it to be but at the end of the day life is the only thing you have ~ Matthew Rivera

Life is not a battle, not a struggle. We impose these burdens on ourselves. ~ Marty Rubin

Some people are born to survive. No matter what comes their way, no matter how much pain is dealt them, they live." ~Mercy~ ~ Lucian Bane

Chase your dreams! Never doubt your capabilities to come out a winner. Struggle hard but never give up the chase to achieve your dreams! ~ Avijeet Das

I'll Stay

...leave
...me.
...I'll
...follow
...you. ~ Ellen Hopkins

He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle. ~ Paulo Coelho

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life. ~ Christina Ricci

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive. ~ Roberto Bolano

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived ... and the picture that fights for its own life. ~ Georg Baselitz

If u can't get along with Dravid, u're struggling in life ~ Brett Lee

Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud? ~ Maira Kalman

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

My life is a struggle. ~ Voltaire

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point. ~ Sean Covey

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ~ Charles Horton Cooley

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast. ~ Leo Buscaglia

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. ~ Yiyun Li

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

Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them. ~ Paulo Coelho

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

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life. ~ Eve Ensler

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle. ~ Ravi Zacharias

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Make a difference now. ~ Michael S. Miller

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack. ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

Niaqornat particularly seemed to offer a heightened version of a story being played out across the world about traditional communities' struggle for survival and their attempts to renegotiate their identity in the face of modern life. ~ Sarah Gavron

That paper
it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in. ~ Markus Zusak

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down. ~ Jodi Picoult

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage ... true success follows every right step. ~ Orison Swett Marden

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

If you can't get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life ~ Brett Lee

Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it's almost unbearable. Even if that's the way it's supposed to be. ~ Fredrik Backman

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does. ~ John Hartford

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life. ~ Sarah Polley

Things can't mend without being broken. ~ A.J. Compton

A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful. ~ Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Obstacles are opportunities waiting to be conquered. Get real with it. ~ T.F. Hodge

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door. ~ Dennis Ross

One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else. ~ John Bytheway

If all properly economic problems were solved once for all ... the social struggle and strife would ... [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity ... in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself. ~ Frank Knight

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life. ~ Columbus Short

Is not a patron my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? ~ Samuel Johnson