Going through life daily, we are
faced with many struggles, difficulties and hurdles we have to overcome each
day in order to meet our set goals and objectives.
Inspiration, motivation and the will
to carry on has never been more imperative. The world has never needed
uplifting messages like it does now. Especially with all the depression and
despondency going around.
These inspirational words of wisdom
about life and its struggles, will both charge and motivate you as this is just
a phase and it will pass as these inspiring words from renowned achievers can
attest.
30 Inspirational quotes about life
and struggles
- "Tough times never last, but tough people do."
- Robert H. Schuller.
Yeah this might
sound cliché, but this words have always proven to be true and consistent. Fact
is the longer you hold on, the closer you get to your finished line.
- "Be who you are and say what you feel, because
those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss.
Life on its own
is complicated enough, so trying to please everyone is honestly futile and
really exhausting. You are the only person perfectly suited and capable to live
your own life.
- "Whether you think you can or you can't, you are
usually right." - Henry Ford.
The ability to
excel in life is resident in you. Every man has the capacity for greatness. But
like most things in life, it is a choice.
- "Struggles are required in other to survive in
life, because in other to stand up you gotta know what falling down feels
like." - Anonymous.
The fact that you
fall does not mean you stay down. Most times it ends up as teachable moments.
So it is only natural for you to struggle in times like this, but the lessons
learnt always comes in handy moving forward.
- "Never ever give up" - Winston Churchill.
Remember “the
darkest hour is before dawn”.
- "Without commitment, you’ll never start, but most
importantly without consistency you will never finish" – Denzel Washington.
No truer words
have ever been spoken. Both commitment and consistency are inherently
intertwined in every success story. Most people fail because they think they
can make do with only one of the two and they are always wrong.
- "I don't regret the things I've done, I regret the
things I didn't do when I had the chance" - Anonymous.
At most
deathbeds, the stories we tend to hear are always what would have been, but it
doesn’t have to be so. Life is for living, so smile, have fun, fall in love,
take risk because at the end that is all that matters.
- "It is not the years in your life that counts, it
is the life in your years" - Abraham
Lincoln.
Wow. Just says
everything about how “longevity does not
count without actually living.” So make those years count.
- "That which does not kill us makes us
stronger" - Friedrich
Nietzsche.
Hey, you survived
so you are a survivor hence you are definitely stronger than you probably care to admit. In life we only go to the next stage after overcoming challenges in
front of us. So no matter how hard it might seem, you are stronger.
- "In the end we will remember not the words of our
enemies but the silence of our friends" - Martin Luther King Jnr.
Quotes about
strength and love always inspire us but sometimes it is important to ponder on
when friendship and relationship can prove decisive in how we overcome difficulties.
- "The two most important days of your life are the
day you are born and the day you find out who you are" - Mark Twain.
The journey to
self-discovery is one of the most important journey in life. Because on the
strength of this discovery, you can be the best you can be in life.
- "I am thankful to everyone that told me NO, it’s
because of them I'm doing it myself" - Albert Einstein.
Facing
disappointments and rejections are part of life. But having the ability to
overcome them is very imperative to achieve success or breakthrough. After all, every
new innovation was always rejected and ridiculed, so don’t give up.
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made
them feel.” – Maya
Angelou
Always being the reason someone smiles is not only beautiful,
but it’s actually beneficial to you. We always feel better when we make others
better. So it is only normal for people to show gratitude and never forget
those acts of kindness.
- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
– Lao Tzu
The popular mantra goes “Rome was not built in a day.” For every
project we want to embark on, every new skill we desire to learn, no matter how
gigantic it looks it always starts with you making that first step. Don’t look
at the challenge, look at the satisfaction to be gained at the end.
- “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy
things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like” – Will Rogers
In our contemporary society
today, especially with the advent of social media, the pressure to measure up
or impress others has never been higher. Most times even those we try to
impress don’t matter. Point is, you are the only person whose opinion matters. Don't go into depression while trying to impress others.
- “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to
know the difference” – Reinhold
Niebuhr
It’s often a dilemma knowing
what needs to be fixed in our lives and what needs to remain the same. But self-discovery tends to solve this
issue as we now possess the necessary wisdom to resolve this never ending
conflict.
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
The road to greatness is
more often than not the least taken route in life. Most people tend to take the least
stressful option hence the 10% controls 90% of the wealth in the world.
- “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other
plans.” – John
Lennon
“Worry does not take away tomorrows problems, rather it takes
away today's peace.” Most times we are so meticulous in planning and
scheduling that time just passes us by. Remember time waits for no man.
- “Pursue excellence and success will follow” –
Rancho(Movie: 3 Idiots)
Pursuing success before
excellence can be likened to putting the horse before the cart. Excellence is a
magnet for success.
- “Change is inevitable. Progress is optional” – Tony Robbins
The fear of change does not
stop its inevitability. Rather than fear change, we should embrace it and make
adjustments if we are to make actual progress.
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
Passion is so important in
life that it can make you overlook challenges and difficulties. Life on its own is hard enough, but a life without passion is unimaginably
difficult.
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the
seeds you plant” - Robert
Louis Stevenson
Our ambitions and
aspirations are subject to our own efforts. So the harvest(result) is directly
proportional to the seed(effort) we plant; no more no less.
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and
overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
The first part might sound
funny, but think back to a period in your life you had to dig in to overcome a
trying situation, the joy is unimaginable hence it all makes sense.
- “Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even
if that means standing alone.” – Unknown
Standing for what you
believe in shows character and dependability especially when there is
opposition. Unfortunately it is a trait that is becoming rare in our societies,
but nevertheless still very valuable and priceless.
- "Challenges are our biggest teachers. Nothing
teaches us more in life than challenges." - Brenda Nathan
Experience they say is our greatest teacher.
They don’t come any better than as challenges. Like earlier stated we never
forget previous experience.
- "Even in the most difficult of times, there is always a
hidden blessing that exists under all the superficial stuff that we so
frequently see. There is always a rainbow waiting to burst forth after the
rain." - Daniella
Whyte
There is always light at the end of the tunnel
and this statement is truism at its best. Never think it is over until it is
over.
- “Once
all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.” - Mao Zedong
At the end of the day, when we come to the
realization and understanding of our challenges, we are half way to getting
solutions. And the possibilities are endless.
- “Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.” - Bernadette Devlin
Struggles should be seen as a form of
preparation. It helps us build the right mindset and attitude in life to
succeed. So our period of struggling should not be seen as a waste, because
tomorrow we win.
- “Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.” - Wilma Rudolph
This quote is so
true as without the struggle, life becomes predictable and boring, life’s beauty
lies in the spontaneity. The reward makes it worth it.
- “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some
are strong at the broken places.” - Ernest Hemingway
At some point life
gets to everybody. But only those with the required
mental strength and grit are able to overcome. This is where quotes about life's
struggles and how to overcome them comes in handy.
Life is and always will be tough, but
from time to time we need to encourage ourselves as we can
only grow stronger. These quotes on life lessons are necessary to both motivate
and inspire us.
