50 Inspirational Quotes About Struggle to Empower Your Journey

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"The triumph can’t be had without the struggle."

- Wilma Rudolph

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."

- Jesse Owens

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving."

- Tyler Perry

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!"

- Stevie Wonder

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit."

- William J. Clinton

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

- Napoleon Hill

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds."

- Dinos Christianopoulos

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nibo Qubein

"There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success."

- Amy Morin

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assisi

"Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

- Winston Churchill

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

- Ambrose Redmoon

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

- Greg Kincaid

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it."

- Demi Lovato

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination."

- Ralph Marston

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things."

- Demi Lovato

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different actions or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."

- Carly Simon

"There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

- Robert Fulghum

"There is no success without hardship."

- Sophocles

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

- Gail Devers

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."

- Bernadette Devlin

"Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do."

- Ralph Marston

"Striving for success is healthy - but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they're able to bounce back and move forward with ease."

- Amy Morin

"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

- Roy T. Bennett

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

- Ben Okri

"Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal."

- Nathan Chen

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B. F. Skinner

"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

"A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone."

- Chinua Achebe

"You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does."

- Phillip Roth

"You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push."

- Carrie Ryan

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hard times always lead to something great."

- Betsey Johnson

"I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you."

- Soledad O'Brien

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- E.M. Forster

"I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws."

- Lady Gaga

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't – surrender to events with hope."

- Alain de Botton

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"In a time of destruction, create something."

- Maxine Hong Kingston

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it."

- Epictetus

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path."

- Buddha

"I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be."

- Nathaniel Rateliff

"I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you."

- C. JoyBell C.

"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Life's a climb. But the view is great."

- Miley Cyrus

"Don't go through life, grow through life."

- Eric Butterworth

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better."

- Steve Southerland

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today."

- Dwayne Johnson

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it."

- Tom DeLonge

"Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be."

- Sarah Dessen

"Every day's a new day."

- Nathan Chen

"If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big."

- Tom Hirshfield

"Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people."

- Anne Lamott

"It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other potential outcomes."

- Amy Morin

"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what it is."

- Chad Sugg

"Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding."

- Martha Beck

"If in trouble, focus on where you want to be rather than where you are!"

- Somya Kedia

"Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself."

- Slavoj Žižek

"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."

- Peter Marshall

"You’ve got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn’t define you, but sees you."

- Deb Caletti

"We must be relentless and resilient."

- Toto Wolff

"Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong."