116 Best Struggle Quotes

Golf is like love: one day it’s all fun and games, the next it’s a wicked struggle.
Golf Passion Struggle
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. - Elon Musk
Elon Musk Entrepreneurship Struggle Perseverance
It's so dreadful to be poor!
Little Women Louisa May Alcott Poverty Struggle Reality
It's so dreadful to be poor!
Little Women Louisa May Alcott Poverty Struggle Reality
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. - Matthew 26:41
Bible Catholic Bible Human Nature Temptation Struggle
I had to fight hard against discrimination, poverty, and ignorance... but I never quit. – Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Racism Struggle Resilience Success
Sometimes you gotta hit rock bottom to find the foundation to rebuild. – Morgan Wallen
Morgan Wallen Redemption Resilience Struggle
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. – George Washington
Stronger Than You Think George Washington Struggle Victory Leadership
The only way to get through hell is to keep going. – Nathan Scott
Perseverance Struggle One Tree Hill Nathan Scott
Sometimes the best things in life come from the hardest struggles. – Haley James Scott
Struggle Growth One Tree Hill Haley James Scott
The warrior's path is paved with hardship.
Viking Struggle Growth
One way or another, this darkness got to give. – Robert Hunter ("New Speedway Boogie")
Grateful Dead Hope Struggle Robert Hunter
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. – Nick Carraway
The Great Gatsby Time Past Struggle Fate Memory
I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope. – Sebastian
La La Land Struggle Perseverance Life Resignation
I feel like I've been standing in the middle of a crowded street yelling, 'Hey, I'm up here!' and you finally looked up and saw me. – Peggy Olson
Mad Men recognition Ambition Validation Struggle
The path to paradise begins in hell. – Tommy Shelby
Peaky Blinders Ambition Struggle Suffering Redemption
The only fight is the fight you're in. – Josto Fadda
Fargo Power Struggle survival Present
I’m crazy. I need to get my mind right. – Elliot
Mr. Robot Mental Health Self-Awareness Acceptance Struggle
Everyone is fighting their own battle. – Fuu
Samurai Champloo Struggle Empathy Understanding Life
Don't ever give up. Even if it's painful, even if it's agonizing, don't try to take the easy way out. – Zenitsu Agatsuma
Demon Slayer Perseverance Courage Struggle Growth
Happiness is something you have to fight for. – Tomoya Okazaki
Clannad Happiness Struggle Perseverance Life
We don't need anything from anyone. We can manage on our own.
Grave of the Fireflies Pride Independence Family Struggle
Setsuko, don't you understand? We can't go back to our aunt's house.
Grave of the Fireflies Pride Family Struggle Independence
We have to be strong.
Grave of the Fireflies survival Resilience Family Struggle
This is me. I think it's apparent that I need to rethink my life a little bit. What's my problem? First of all, I'm a rat. Which means life is hard. – Remy
Ratatouille identity Self-Reflection Struggle purpose
I'm stuck! – WALL·E
WALL·E Perseverance Humor Struggle
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. – Winston Smith
1984 Rebellion Consciousness Power Struggle Proletariat
I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. – Mr. Antolini
The Catcher in the Rye Maturity self-destruction Struggle
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. – Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird Courage Integrity Morality Struggle
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. – Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird Justice Courage Struggle Morality
The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.
Les Misérables Future Idealism Courage Struggle
To withdraw is not to run away; and to retreat is not a surrender.
Les Misérables Strategy Wisdom Perseverance Struggle
He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. – Ahab
Moby-Dick Struggle malice Power Obsession
All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. – Narrator
Moby-Dick Obsession projection evil Struggle
I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. – Ahab
Moby-Dick Defiance Death Struggle Legacy
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. – Ahab
Moby-Dick revenge Struggle Hate Defiance Death
He was a fugitive from all the plagues and catastrophes that had ever lashed mankind.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Fate Suffering History Struggle
The land they had fought for so many years was nothing but an illusion.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Illusion Struggle futility War
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. – Dmitri Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov Beauty good and evil Duality Struggle Human Nature
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. – The Elder Zosima
The Brothers Karamazov existence Meaning purpose Life Struggle
I want to suffer so that I may love. – Dmitri Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov Suffering Love Redemption Purification Struggle
The awful thing is that beauty is not only a terrible, but also a mysterious thing. Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart. – Dmitri Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov Beauty Duality good and evil Struggle Human Heart
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. – Narrator (on Ralph)
Lord of the Flies Struggle survival Civilization hardship
And the little farmers watched debt creep up on them like the tide. They sprayed the trees and sold no crop, they pruned and grafted and could not pick the crop.
The Grapes of Wrath Economics displacement Struggle debt
Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum.
The Grapes of Wrath Prejudice dehumanization Struggle identity
And now they were in flight from the sun and the drought.
The Grapes of Wrath migration survival Nature Struggle
And the great highway was alive with people moving like ants, scrambling for food, for a place to lie down, for a moment of rest.
The Grapes of Wrath migration Struggle dehumanization survival
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Santiago
The Old Man and the Sea Struggle defeat Perseverance Spirit
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. – Santiago
The Old Man and the Sea Resourcefulness pragmatism Struggle Perseverance
Pain does not matter to a man. – Santiago
The Old Man and the Sea Suffering Endurance masculinity Struggle
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