50 Inspirational Quotes to Overcome Life's Struggles

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"We must be relentless and resilient."

- Toto Wolff

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

- William Faulkner

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

"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

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- H.G. Wells

"There is no success without hardship."

- Sophocles

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"In a time of destruction, create something."

- Maxine Hong Kingston

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

- Tyler Perry

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Bernadette Devlin

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

"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

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

- Wilma Rudolph

"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

"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

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"Every day's a new day."

- Nathan Chen

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

- Eric Butterworth

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

- Confucius

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

- Og Mandino

"Hard times always lead to something great."

- Betsey Johnson

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

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- 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

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

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

- Nido Qubein

"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

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

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Joseph Campbell

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"With each passing day, I didn’t lose hope. I fought to have more."

- Amy Tan

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

- Agatha Christie

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."

- Beyoncé

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

- Paulo Coelho

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"All serious daring starts from within."

- Eudora Welty

"If you own this story you get to write the ending."

- Brené Brown

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be"

- William Shakespeare

"Be the best of whatever you are."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in."

- Amal Clooney

"The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

- William James

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."

- Henry Ford

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Drew Barrymore

"Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself."

- Harvey Fierstein

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Will Rogers

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

- Beyoncé

"Don't worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up."

- Awkwafina

"So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible."

- Norton Juster

"Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have."

- Thomas Davidson

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

- Walt Whitman

"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step."

- Rosa Parks

"How wild it was, to let it be."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"It's your outlook on life that counts."

- Betty White

"Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."

- Lillian Dickinson

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."

- Henry Boye

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Molière

"Do not fear the conflict, and do not flee from it; where there is no struggle, there is no virtue."

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

"What defines us is how well we rise after falling."

"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

"A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it."

"Every setback is a setup for a comeback."

"You are capable of much more than you are currently thinking, imagining, or doing."

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

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

"Every challenge is a chance to grow stronger and wiser."

"Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won't last forever."

"Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on but you keep going anyway."

"Your current struggles are just a chapter, not your whole story."

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great person struggling against adversity."

"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever."

"Within every challenge lies the hidden treasure of self-discovery."

"Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine."

"Believe in yourself; you are much stronger than you think."

"Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities."