Top 200 Struggle Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Patience Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

2. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Life Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Leadership Quotes

3. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Life Quotes, Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

4. “The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Encouragement Quotes

5. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Depressing Quotes

6. “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Powerful Motivational Quotes, Impact Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

7. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Morality Quotes, Fighting Quotes

8. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Fighting Quotes

9. “Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Strong Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Effort Quotes

10. “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Happy Quotes, Deep Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Existentialism Quotes

11. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Life Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength

12. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

13. “Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Progress Quotes

14. “Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.”

— Bruce Lee

15. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Hope

16. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Moving On Quotes

17. “Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Victory Quotes

18. “Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”

— Karl Marx

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Communication Quotes

19. “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Resistance Quotes, Freedom Quotes

20. “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

21. “The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

22. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Live Life Quotes

23. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Experience Quotes

24. “There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Grit Quotes

25. “Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Grit Quotes

26. “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes

27. “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

28. “Life for me has not been a crystal stair.”

— Langston Hughes

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Sorrow Quotes

29. “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

— Steven Furtick

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

30. “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Interesting Quotes

31. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Winning Quotes

32. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Life Lessons Quotes, Effort Quotes, Quality Quotes

33. “We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes

34. “Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

35. “I hate that word – “lucky.” It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes – I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.”

— Peter Dinklage

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes

36. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

37. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

— Louis Pasteur

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Quotes About Trying

38. “The cure for pain is in the pain.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

39. “Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Achievement Quotes

40. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Doubt Quotes

41. “You will never ever be successful, until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

42. “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes, Mind Quotes

43. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

— Randy Pausch

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Passion Quotes

44. “You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Moving On Quotes

45. “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Choices Quotes

46. “None but ourselves can free our minds.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

47. “To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Fighting Quotes

48. “Life had to break you down so you could be rebuilt better.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Character Quotes, Adversity Quotes

49. “Write hard and clear about what hurts. ”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Suffering Quotes

50. “Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Success, Hard Hitting Quotes, Performance Quotes, Fighting Quotes