Top 200 Struggle Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

— Albert Camus

52. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

— Mother Teresa

53. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

54. “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”

— Ryan Holiday

55. “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

56. “Know yourself and you will win all battles.”

— Sun Tzu

57. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

— Bruce Lee

58. “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”

— Isaiah 54:17

59. “Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

60. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

61. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

62. “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”

— Karl Marx

63. “Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”

— David Goggins

64. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”

— Ovid

65. “Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

66. “In battle, if you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

67. “There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.”

— James Allen

68. “Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

69. “You have to go through the worst to get to the best.”

— Anonymous

70. “The times they are a-changing.”

— Bob Dylan

71. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx

72. “If it’s hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.”

— Les Brown

73. “Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

74. “If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.”

— Brené Brown

75. “It’s just me against the world.”

— Tupac Shakur

76. “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

— C. S. Lewis

77. “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

78. “The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”

— George Washington

79. “Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.”

— Brian Tracy

80. “When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.”

— Elon Musk

81. “Never run back to what broke you.”

— Frank Ocean

82. “That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”

— John Green

83. “When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.”

— Sylvester Stallone

84. “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

— Maya Angelou

85. “Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

86. “The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It’s not easy. But absolutely worth it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

87. “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”

— Malcolm X

88. “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

— Malcolm X

89. “The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”

— C.G. Jung

90. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

— Thomas Paine

91. “We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.”

— Joel Osteen

92. “It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.”

— Perry Noble

93. “Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it.”

— John Locke

94. “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

— Malcolm X

95. “There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”

— Albert Camus

96. “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

97. “In a day when you don’t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are traveling on the wrong path.”

— Swami Vivekananda

98. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”

— Victor Hugo

99. “The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph.”

— Nick Vujicic

100. “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara