Top 200 Struggle Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

— Tupac Shakur

102. “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

103. “Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”

— Charles Bukowski

104. “The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’”

— Billy Graham

105. “It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.”

— Chris Gardner

106. “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

— Thomas Carlyle

107. “Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

108. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”

— Elbert Hubbard

109. “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”

— Winston Churchill

110. “God will not place a burden on a man’s shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.”

— Muhammad Ali

111. “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”

— Will Smith

112. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

— Ernest Hemingway

113. “My life is a struggle.”

— Voltaire

114. “Success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not.”

— Greg Plitt

115. “If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.”

— Zig Ziglar

116. “If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.”

— T. Harv Eker

117. “It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

118. “Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.”

— Jackie Chan

119. “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

— Ernest Hemingway

120. “Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.”

— Casey Neistat

121. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

122. “I see only my objective – the obstacles must give way.”

— Napoleon

123. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”

— Robert Downey Jr.

124. “To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.”

— Seneca

125. “The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”

— Douglas MacArthur

126. “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

127. “The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

128. “Let us fight for a new world, a decent world!”

— Charlie Chaplin

129. “There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”

— Nick Saban

130. “There is no gain without struggle.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

131. “Everything is hard before it is easy.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

132. “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

133. “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

— Winston Churchill

134. “Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

135. “The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”

— Epictetus

136. “If I persist long enough I will win.”

— Og Mandino

137. “No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it’s hard to carry on when, No one loves you.”

— Tupac Shakur

138. “I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life – it’s possible.”

— Les Brown

139. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

140. “You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”

— David Goggins

141. “The path of least resistance will never make you proud.”

— Tony Robbins

142. “God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.”

— Joyce Meyer

143. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

144. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

145. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

146. “And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

147. “There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side.”

— Nelson Mandela

148. “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

— Nelson Mandela

149. “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

150. “When all your energy is gone! When you have nothing left! That’s when it’s show time!”

— Eric Thomas