If you’re struggling, these struggle quotes may help you to the lighter side of bright. Struggle is a part of the human experience. We enter this world through struggle. Just the process of birth is a great struggle, and simultaneously, a great joy.
At Ease
When we are truly at ease within ourselves there is nothing that can pull us off center. Until then, we can embrace our struggles as a signal that we have some inner work to do.
It isn’t an issue, it’s a message.
What helps you to move into a space of inner peace and abiding joy?
Whatever that is, remember to do more of that. Daily. Even a glimpse, focused on, will expand that within you. Time well spent.
The more we visit that space the more we can anchor our consciousness in our own quiet “eye of the storm” place of peace, and the more we are at home with ourselves. Such that no matter the turmoil and dramas, tragedies and pain, we remain anchored in an eternal self that understands, forgives and heals.
The day is the way to create the life you want to live.
~iCreateDaily.com®
Adversity and Struggle Quotes
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
~Albert Einstein, physicist, 1879-1955
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, 4 BCE-65 AD
It is in adversity that our character is tested. It is in the struggle that we decide who it is we are to be.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, creator, iCreateDaily.com®
Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.”
~James Lane Allen, novelist, short stories, 1849-1925
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hmmm… is that true? We often tend to repeat quotes and adages of the ages, often without questioning the truth of it. So for this adversity quote by James Lane Allen, we would phrase it differently for we believe that adversity both builds and reveals character. So we’re providing another couple of variations here so you can decide. Feel free to send us your favorite quote on struggle — either your own or someone else’s.
Adversity both builds and reveals character.
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Adversity doesn’t define us, it reveals us… and our next opportunity for personal growth.
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®
How to mitigate adversity and turn it around? Bring on the attitude! Consider how, in any adversity, you can turn pain into power and struggle into strength.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.”
~Dieter F. Uchtdorf, German aviator, religious leader, author, b.11/6/1940
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
~Zig Ziglar, speaker, author, entrepreneur
Adversity is preparation for greatness.
~Andy Andrews, author, b.5/22/1959
Arguments
If your struggle is an argument, give love and understanding instead of battling with bitterness and hurt.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, creator iCreateDaily.com®
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, ‘He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.’
~Epictetus, slave-born, Greek Stoic philosopher, 50-135 AD
Attitude and Struggle Quotes
“To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs.”
~Epictetus, slave-born, Greek Stoic philosopher, 50-135 AD
“Every morning we wake up with the same choice: What will my attitude be today? Ask yourself that without fail. Decide that no matter what the day brings, your attitude will include three elements: an awareness of how far you’ve come, gratitude for where you are, and determination to keep moving in the right direction.”
~Toni Sorenson, photographer, author, formerly homeless orphan
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘This is misfortune‘, but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD
Belief Quotes
“Imagine what would happen if you decided to believe that you could.”
~Jamie Kern Lima, founder ‘it cosmetics’, author, b. 7/16/1977
Challenges and Struggle Quotes
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
~Epictetus, slave-born, Greek Stoic philosopher, 50-135 AD
“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried but actually you’ve been planted.”
~ Christine Caine, activist, author, NGO founder, b.9/23/1966
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell, literature professor, author, 1904-1987
Character and Struggle Quotes
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
~Albert Einstein, physicist, 1879-1955
Adversity both builds and reveals character.
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®
I lead myself astray every day.
I think I am my own worst enemy.
But that’s okay, lessons learned that way
Mistakes teach me how better to be.~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Choice and Struggle Quotes
Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.
~Epictetus, slave-born, Greek Stoic philosopher, 50-135 AD
Creativity and Struggle Quotes
I can’t say I wish that struggle never happened because it gave me a great gift; prolific creativity.
~Shannon Billings Schofield, author writer, beekeeper
Life’s struggles, dramas and hurts can be powerful catalysts for creativity, turning pain to positive power.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Discovery and Struggles
It’s the dips and valleys, struggles and strife in the journey of life that lead to breakthroughs in self discovery.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Empathy and Struggle Quotes
The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, author b.1/29/54
“When life is sweet say thank you, and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”
~author unknown
End of the World Quotes
Whatever you’re going through, you may feel like it’s the end of the world, and like there’s no way out, but if you look back 2-5 years, maybe that is the pivotal moment for you [to succeed].
SOURCE: DanLok Podcast interview with Cindy Eckert
~Dan Lok, billionaire entrepreneur, author, coach, b.1981
Fitness and Struggle Quotes
The struggles that challenge you are the dumbbells that strengthen you.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Fortitude and Quotes About Struggle
Nothing lasts forever. Same for any struggle. Some are longer than others, but ever shall we get to the the other side. For now, focus on the next most important thing you can do and purposefully proceed. Fortitude through the interlude.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Working through struggle is exercise for the emotions. The more we do it the easier it becomes and the stronger we get.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Friendship
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
~Epictetus, slave-born, Greek Stoic philosopher, 50-135 AD
Goals and Struggle
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
~Viktor Frankl, holocaust survivor, neurologist, psychiatrist, author, 1905-1997
Gratitude and Struggle Quotes
I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.
~Alex Elle, author, wellness consultant
Greatness and Struggle Quotes
Bad is good when it pushes us to better.
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“Struggles are the training grounds of greatness.”
~Devani Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
Grief and Struggle Quotes
“Grief is praise. It is Love’s way to honor what it misses.”
~Martin Prechtel, artist, author, musician, storyteller, teacher
Growth and Struggle Quotes
Life is about growth. Life is growth. Your life… your growth. It’s about being more of who you will become through the sweat of your efforts and the struggle of the climb.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Struggles inform us on the areas we need to strengthen and reveal to us a greater capacity to overcome. Growing through challenges makes us stronger and more capable and that success feeds greater growth.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“If you’re struggling with anything, consider how to turn that struggle into a strength. The opportunity for growth is latent within every challenge.”
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Struggles signal that it’s time to grow.
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Hardship and Struggle Quotes
“Chances are you’ve felt the strongest and most at ease with yourself after achieving through doing hard things. There’s something innate within all of us that compels us to grow, and growth almost always follows effort and struggle.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
When we do the hard things, the hard things no longer do us in. Rather, they make us stronger and more capable.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
This struggle is just a thorn to the rose of life.
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Joy and Quotes About Struggle
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English writer, philosopher, 1874-1936
Life and Struggle Quotes
Life is a grand struggle until you realize that you are a chemical processing plant. And once you understand how to take control of the chemical processing… and you can do virtually anything you want, you can create desire, you can stay focused, you can improve… but you really do have to put yourself in a position of adapt or die. Your body has to believe: adapt or die and then it will believe.
~Tom Bilyeu, cofounder Quest Nutrition & Impact Theory, b.3/30/1976
“Struggle is a part of life. The good and bad. The wins and fails. The love and loss. If we want to experience life’s joys we must also accept and grow from life’s strife. It’s all life. This one special and precious life.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right.”
~Glennon Doyle, activist, writer, author, in her book Untamed, 3/20/1976
Meaning and Struggle Quotes
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
~Viktor Frankl, holocaust survivor, neurologist, psychiatrist, author, 1905-1997
Mind Power and Struggle Quotes
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD
Opportunity and Struggle Quotes
Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.
~Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900
Struggles don’t define us, they reveal to us opportunities to grow.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Overcoming and Struggle Quotes
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, first deaf-blind degreed, author, 1880-1968
Brace yourself, steady your nerves, put your head down and tackle whatever you face head on. The storm may jar you a bit but you won’t buckle and you won’t break.
~Bobby Maximus, fitness trainer, author, b.9/5/1978
Optimism and Positivity from Struggles
This struggle is just a thorn to the rose of my life.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
~Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD
Pain and Struggle Quotes
How to mitigate adversity and turn it around? Bring on the attitude! Consider how, in any adversity, you can turn pain into power and struggle into strength.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
~Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD
Progress and Struggle Quotes
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
~Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, author, 1818-1895
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
~Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, author b.1/29/54
Running from Struggle Quotes
Rather than running away from obstacles or trying to figure out some way around them go right through.
~Bobby Maximus, fitness trainer, author, b.9/5/1978
Running [away] is never the best option.
~Bobby Maximus, trainer, author, b.9/5/1978
Sacrifice – To Make Sacred Through Struggle
To sift the gem in the lesson from the dirt and hold it to the light of the heart is to illuminate its brilliance… and make sacred the struggle.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Strength and Struggle Quotes
The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.
~Robert Tew, sailor, author
“Struggle makes us stronger when we can change our mindset toward rising into more rather than shrinking and sinking into less.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Believe in your ability to weather the storm. When you come out the other side you’ll be better for showing your strength.
~Bobby Maximus, fitness trainer, author, b.9/5/1978
The journey of becoming is a journey of struggle and pushing ourselves and doing the hard work, which is exactly what makes us stronger and more capable.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD
Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I must do this.’
~Toni Sorenson, photographer, author, formerly homeless orphan
Struggles are just brambles in the path; hack them away and forge ahead.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
~Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, 4 BCE-65 AD
Struggles Make Us Stronger
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
~Viktor Frankl, holocaust survivor, neurologist, psychiatrist, author, 1905-1997
When you’re in the middle of a struggle the only way out is through.
~Bobby Maximus, fitness trainer, author, b.9/5/1978
Strength of character isn’t always about how much you can handle before you break, it’s also about how much you can handle after you’ve broken.
~Robert Tew, sailor, author
Struggle builds strength if we don’t shy away from it.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Success and Struggle Quotes
If you’re struggling with anything, consider how to turn that struggle into a strength; that problem into an opportunity for learning, growth and success. That’s what it’s there for.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter.”
~Toni Sorenson, photographer, author, formerly homeless orphan
What successful artist, author, entrepreneur, athlete, CEO… What accomplished creator got there by not pushing themselves?
None.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, 4 BCE-65 AD
“The struggle is guaranteed, the success is not.”
SOURCE: London Real TV [1]https://youtu.be/Yx9vBJxMOTk
~Tom Bilyeu, cofounder Quest Nutrition & Impact Theory, b.3/30/1976
Serenity and Struggle Quotes
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and your life will be serene.
~Epictetus, slave-born, Greek Stoic philosopher, 50-135 AD
“When we are truly at ease within ourselves nothing can pull us off center. Until then, we can embrace our struggles as a signal that we have some inner work to do.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Suffering and Struggle Quotes
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
~Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, 4 BCE-65 AD
Tough Times and Struggle Quotes
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
~Publilius Syrus, Latin writer, former slave, 85-43 BC
Transformation Through Struggle
The most successful transformation process is the alchemy of transmutation. You have the power to convert negativity to positive energy. You can perceive struggles as growth, and injury inflicted as being “for you” instead of “to you”.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
~Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, 4 BCE-65 AD
Triumph Through Struggle
“In order to grow better, capable and stronger, we must push against the gravity of our own resistance. That’s the first struggle. The more we resist our resistance to doing hard things… to just doing the work, the stronger we get and more capable of doing the next harder thing.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
~Swami Sivananda, spiritual guru, author, 1887-1963
Weakness and Quotes About Struggle
All cruelty springs from weakness.
~Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, 4 BCE-65 AD
Your weakness gives clues to your strengths. Put your weaknesses to work for you, rather than against you, and they will begin to pull their weight and reveal your strengths.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Your weaknesses can become your strengths. It’s just about building new pathways in your brain. Put them to work for you, instead of against you.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Worthy and Quotes About Struggle
You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging
~Brené Brown, researcher, author, & speaker, b.11/18/1965
Good Timber Poem by Douglas Malloch
This is an all time favorite poem that uses the metaphor of trees growing to depict how struggles make us stronger.
GOOD TIMBER
by Douglas Malloch
Douglas Malloch, poet, short stories, editor-American Lumberman 1877-1938
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never had to toil
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.
Where thickest lies the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.
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