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Quotes About Struggle

Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?
~ Marissa Meyer
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
~ Ian Anderson
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
~ Jay-Z
Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.
~ Jill Scott
I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.
~ Jim Harrison
Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.
~ Jo Coudert
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
~ Anton Chekhov
There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
~ Alan Ayckbourn
The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way.
~ Ayumi Hamasaki
I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.
~ Beth Moore
I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.
~ Romeo Dallaire
Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
~ Susan L. Taylor
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
~ Thomas Merton
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
~ Tom Waits
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
~ Van Morrison
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
~ Watchman Nee
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
~ Maxim Gorky
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
~ Maya Banks
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.
~ Paula Modersohn-Becker
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
~ Peter McWilliams