Top 100 Life Is Struggle Quotes
#1. If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.
Frederick Lenz
#3. As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Diane Frolov
#4. Don't expect a time in your life when you'll be free from change, free from struggle, free from worry. To be resilient, you must understand that your objective is not to come to rest, because there is no rest. Your objective is to use what hits you to change your trajectory in a positive direction.
Eric Greitens
#5. A lot of the people that stop you - well, they're not nuts, exactly. They're more like super-fans. They think that I'm some sort of rich guy, that everyone in the movies is making the kind of money Angelina Jolie is making. They don't realize that most of my life has been a struggle.
Mark Margolis
#6. Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.
Uri Avnery
#8. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
Boyd K. Packer
#9. The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.
Peter Garrett
#10. The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile.
Boniface Wimmer
#11. Paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition."
Transition is the tension present between struggle and grace.
Deborah Brodie
#12. It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.
Steve Maraboli
#13. Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
Stephen Covey
#14. The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I'm not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.
Steve Rasnic Tem
#15. I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.
Troy Polamalu
#16. We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.
Sylvester Stallone
#17. All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?
Ken MacLeod
#18. In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.
Abraham Lincoln
#19. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.
George Meredith
#20. Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.
Keith Olbermann
#21. Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.
Robert Jordan
#22. I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
Michael Nyqvist
#23. Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#24. You've got the oil companies fighting Pope Francis. Fighting the scientists of the world. Fighting the governor of California. They are engaged in literally a life-and-death struggle, and I have no doubt who is going to be the victor.
Jerry Brown
#25. I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.
Tina Modotti
#26. I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it's impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.
Kate Winslet
#27. Every man has the right to struggle for his own existence and this right is valid only within the limits of morality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. Life is war. By implication, life in itself places humanity with the need for battle in the struggle for success
Michael Quansah
#29. The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.
Henry A. Kissinger
#30. A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.
A.D. Posey
#31. It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#32. Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
Rumi
#33. This is the church's job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling, who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life. That's good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
Alan Chambers
#34. Let's start anew. Life is goals
Purpose-Attempts
Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.
Eugene Mirman
#35. A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.
Diosdado Macapagal
#36. There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
Bruce Lipton
#37. So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and reilience? What if it's pain? What if it's the struggle?
Glennon Doyle Melton
#38. Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever ...
Lisa Jones
#39. All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
Ayn Rand
#40. Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others?
Why do some people have to struggle so much?
Lisa Kleypas
#41. The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension ... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#42. I must believe that it is easier when it isn't a struggle to take every breath, when it isn't torture to live every day, when it doesn't hurt to see the new sun rise. I must believe these things or there is no point in living anymore.
Taylor Schake
#43. I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
Ted Danson
#44. Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.
Dennis R. Miller
#45. So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.
Lynn Andrews
#46. There is no such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and eases the struggle of one's daily life, is much better than all the living friends who just ain't bothered.
Abhijit Naskar
#47. Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. The greatest struggle in my life is between a dignified silence and having my say
Amy Bloom
#49. Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness.
Tzvetan Todorov
#50. The struggle between life elements is the struggle for the free energy of a system.
Frank Herbert
#51. Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit.
Chris Prentiss
#53. Change often brings unimagined opportunity ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.
Syrie James
#54. Life's a climb. But the view is great.
Miley Cyrus
#55. Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.
Anita Shreve
#56. It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence
"Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."
Charles Spurgeon
#57. 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together.
Mark Bittman
#58. But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.
Charles Darwin
#59. If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.
Robert Anthony
#60. Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything ... it calls for confidence in oneself ... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
Virginia Woolf
#61. When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#62. Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#63. All life is a struggle in the dark.
Lucretius
#64. 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
#65. You were not born to be ordinary and struggle through life. You were born to excel and win. Your destiny is to live great and above all things ... shine!
Timothy Pina
#66. My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.
Cory Booker
#67. Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.
Joan D. Chittister
#68. For some reason I can articulate my feelings better in song. I wish it would come out better in regular life too though. The issue is that I struggle with is that I'm worried about what people think, or how they'll react to whatever it is I have to say, and obviously that's not a good thing.
Brett Dennen
#69. The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#70. 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
#71. Life for the majority of the population.
Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral.
Siegfried Sassoon
#72. 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
#73. Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.
Robert Breault
#74. Slipping away are the hopes that made Bliss out of sorrow, and sun out of shade, Slipping away is our hold on life; And out of the struggle and wearing strife ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#75. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
Sidney Poitier
#76. The comfort of certainty and perfection vs. the fear of uncertainty and being suboptimal. This is the struggle.
Let me let you in on a secret: no one is free from this struggle.
Leo Babauta
#77. Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#78. We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.
Brooke Shields
#79. It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
Eugenio Montale
#81. Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.
Alexander Hamilton
#82. Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
William Hazlitt
#83. 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
#84. The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.
Margaret M. Lock
#85. There is no significance in life without struggle
Lolly Daskal
#86. Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
Martin Bormann
#87. A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes.
This isn't all we are, but it is a part of who we are. The only question I have when I'm with someone is, Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?
Anna White
#88. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.
Cesar Chavez
#89. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.
Amah Lambert
#90. ... Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's individuality on the world, one has to work against the fabric of modern culture itself and uphold ultimate values in the face of purely instrumental and ever more 'rational' forces.
Nicholas Gane
#92. The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing
love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what's they're imagining more than other people.
Rhonda Byrne
#93. I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.
Lee Kuan Yew
#94. Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
David Gemmell
#95. Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.
Paulo Coelho
#96. Love is the one uniting, relatable thing in everyone's life. It's what we all want and struggle with and fight for.
Drew Barrymore
#97. We each get one life that is our own. We each in our own way struggle to get ahead, love, grieve, and lose our loved ones to death.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#98. And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson: and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to ... and then some!
Gloria Estefan
#99. A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
Victor Hugo
#100. A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.
Joan Erikson
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