Top 200 Struggle Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

— Fred Rogers

152. “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

153. “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”

— Charles Dickens

154. “Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument.”

— Ratan Tata

155. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

— Denis Waitley

156. “Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future.”

— Umar

157. “Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.”

— Abdul Kalam

158. “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

— Brené Brown

159. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

160. “When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”

— Joyce Meyer

161. “By any means necessary.”

— Malcolm X

162. “Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as instruments of divine sovereignty.”

— John C. Maxwell

163. “They Have Money For War But Can’t Feed The Poor.”

— Tupac Shakur

164. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

— Napoleon Hill

165. “The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”

— Rumi

166. “I’d made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.”

— Louis Zamperini

167. “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”

— Victor Hugo

168. “Hope is a function of struggle.”

— Brené Brown

169. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

170. “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

171. “Don’t be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the ‘Kite’ of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.”

— Napoleon Hill

172. “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

173. “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

— Nikola Tesla

174. “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

— Walt Disney

175. “In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.”

— Charles Darwin

176. “I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”

— Ayn Rand

177. “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

178. “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

179. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”

— Antonio Gramsci

180. “Waiting for the end to come, Wishing I had strength to stand, This is not what I had planned, It’s out of my control.”

— Linkin Park

181. “Ever feel like God is a million miles away? The truth is, he’s not. Whatever struggle you’re going through, you can rest assured you’re not alone. You have God in your corner.”

— Rick Warren

182. “A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us.”

— Pema Chödrön

183. “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

— John Steinbeck

184. “Strength is the product of struggle; you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.”

— Henry Rollins

185. “I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

186. “In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can’t expect that you’re going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.”

— Frederick Douglass

187. “The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”

— Christopher Hitchens

188. “But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

— George Orwell

189. “A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”

— Orison Swett Marden

190. “At times some may think that no one cares – but someone always cares! Your Heavenly Father will not leave you to struggle alone, but stands ever ready to help.”

— Thomas S. Monson

191. “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

192. “A man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.”

— John Cena

193. “In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

194. “Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.”

— Khalil Gibran

195. “The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.”

— Isaac Newton

196. “There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.”

— Terence McKenna

197. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

— Malcolm X

198. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

199. “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”

— Steve Jobs

200. “The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.”

— Daisaku Ikeda