Quotes About Struggle

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

So many Christians seek to live the pain-free Christian life. Such a life has no impact.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn't taste as sweet.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

Such is Life [Executed by hanging.]

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.