Personal Struggle Quotes

#1. Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus?

Ched Myers

#2. Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

Hal Elrod

#3. I'm really hands-on. My team brings in elements, but, every season, it's kind of a personal struggle to find the balance and to see how far I want to push the elements.

Dries Van Noten

#4. When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.

David Whyte

#5. We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves.

Barbara Becker Holstein

#6. One of the voices that we struggle with inside is the voice of religion. Religion teaches us some very strict things about God and our relationship with God. Some religions teach us that we aren't worthy of having a personal relationship with God.

Echo Bodine

#7. They chose to be different. And in doing so, they proved that through struggle, sacrifice and service, staggering personal transformation is possible.

Adam Braun

#8. The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)

Charles E. Moore

#9. (I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation.

Drew Waters

#10. I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

#11. We all struggle. It's just that some of us struggle out loud and some of us don't.

Renae A. Sauter

#12. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression, and marked by war, genocide, and the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Tom Standage

#13. I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

Tracy Morgan

#14. Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

Jack Valenti

#16. The struggle for Financial Freedom is very unfair. Just look at the rewards.

Manoj Arora

#17. The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'

Camille Paglia

#18. 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

#19. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Alan Cumming

#20. Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#21. You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

Thomas Sowell

#22. If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

Jeff Goins

#23. You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

Sean Penn

#24. To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

Steve Sabol

#25. The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

Bell Hooks

#26. I found the Course essential in my struggle for personal transformation. It helped me recognize that I really did have a choice of experiencing peace or conflict, and that this choice is always between accepting truth or illusion.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#27. Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he'll not be "fed up" with his little personal troubles.

Herbert Newton Casson

#28. I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

Nikki Haley

#29. I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

Corey Smith

#30. That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effort.

Chelsea Handler

#31. Be a blessing to all you are connecting with on social media. Encourage, rejoice and celebrate with each and every one. You will find that it will do wonders for your own attitude as well as those who may struggle with a negative mind-set.

John Patrick Hickey

#32. We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

Jo Coudert

#33. With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.

Denis Waitley

#34. Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#35. I have a vital need for peace. I seek no personal end, no approval from public opinion. Everything now is a struggle with myself.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#36. We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.

Nadezhda Krupskaya

#37. After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.

Sivananda Radha Saraswati

#38. Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.

Philip Schultz

#39. The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality ... eventually only the core remains.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#40. It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after years and years of struggle, and that even then they come only as flashes of grace and peace.

Jean Vanier

#41. We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

Eknath Easwaran