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Struggling Quotes

Quotes tagged as "struggling" Showing 31-60 of 100
Alison Malee
“Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world.”
Alison Malee

“Personal struggles, mistakes, and perseverance are part of every person’s life story. A proper mindset can turn failure into a gift. Specific human qualities such as intelligence and adaptive skills can be cultivated through applied effort to assist a person overcome a resounding failure. Each person would be wise to ask how does a person cope � grapple � with failure? We derive strength from our struggles.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.”
David Shore

Ray Dalio
“Once we get the things we are striving for, we rarely remain satisfied with them. The things are just the bait. Chasing after them forces us to evolve, and it is the evolution and not the rewards themselves that matters to us and to those around us. This means that for most people success is struggling and evolving as effectively as possible.”
Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires questing. Questing provides the meaning that we seek, a purpose to justify the inevitable struggle to live knowing the absurdity that we must die.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Iris Murdoch
“I struggled with a nebulous work which seemed now a nouvelle, now a vast novel, wherein a hero not unlike myself pursued, amid ghostly incidents, a series of reflections about life and art.”
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

Awdhesh Singh
“Most people are unhappy since they fail to get what they want in life. However, even when they actually get what they want, their happiness is short-lived because very soon they raise the bar to a higher level and again start struggling to achieve the next level. Their happiness level thus comes back to the original level as before.”
Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

Donald Firesmith
“We spent a few hours struggling to come up with better explanations, but each suggestion was shot down almost as soon as it was made. The suggestions became wilder, eventually to the point of silliness.”
Donald G. Firesmith, What Lurks Below

Farshad Asl
“If there isn't a struggle, there's no stretch, and therefore no growth. Easy doesn’t change you and comfort won’t challenge you. Coasting isn't a strategy.”
Farshad Asl

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The most monumental events in all of human history all began with one person. And in a world that’s struggling, the one thing that you can ill-afford to forget is that what you have in common with every single one of those men and women is that you too are one person.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The last time that life kicked me in the ass, I pulled down its pants and put a foot up its ass.”
Eminem

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Poverty is at least a trillion times more likely than wealth to make one wonder what the purpose of life is.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It takes an enormous amount of self-confidence to tell others about your struggles while you are still struggling.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Leïla Slimani
“She has the strange certainty that all struggle is futile. That all she can do is let events carry her away, wash over her, overwhelm her, while she remains passive and inert.”
Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

Jyoti Patel
“Just hold me and so
I won’t be alone inside
Just hold me and so
I don't do something wrong

Just hold me so tight
That for a moment
I could feel the light”
Jyoti Patel, The Curved Rainbow

Paula Stokes
“Anyone who is struggling with something could find inspiration in the way you face your problems head on and totally kick their asses.”
Paula Stokes, Stronger Than Words

Robert Hayden
“It was as though you struggled against
fierce current jagged with debris
to save me then. I am desperate still.”
Robert Hayden, Collected Poems

Mehmet Murat ildan
“Those who cling firmly to existence to survive and struggle to death to achieve this without harming anyone deserve infinite respect and appreciation!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Will Durant
“ارسطو ميگويد همه چيز، بارها و بارها كشف شده و از ياد رفته است. او به ما اطمينان خاطر ميدهد كه پيشرفت يك توهم است؛ امور انسان مانند درياست كه در سطح خود هزاران حركت و آشفتگي دارد و چنين به نظر مي رسد كه به سوي جايي پيش مي رود، در حالي كه در تهِ خود بالنسبه بي تغيير و آرام است. آنچه ما آن را پيشرفت مي خوانيم شايد فقط تغييرات سطحي محض باشد؛ توالي اي از سبك ها و مدها در لباس، حمل و نقل، حكومت، روان شناسي و دين، علم مسيحي، رفتارگرايي، دموكراسي، اتومبيل و شلوار پيشرفت نيستند، آنها تغييرند؛ آنها راه هاي جديدي در انجام كارهاي قديمي اند، خطاهايي جديد در كوشش بيهوده براي فهم اسرار ابدي و ازلي. در زير اين پديده هاي متنوع، گوهر و ذات امور يكسان مي ماند.”
Will Durant, On the Meaning of Life

“Success is the result of your struggling”
Idowu Ayodeji

L.R. Knost
“In your most challenging parenting moments, take a deep breath and try to remember that the moment your child is at their most challenging is the moment your child is struggling with the most challenges.”
L.R. Knost

Carhamel D. Chesecake
“Sometimes "just fine" can seem so superficial. Have you ever been really struggling and feeling sick or down, and someone asked "how are you?" and you answered "just fine" because you felt that was the only thing the other person wanted to hear?”
Carhamel D. Chesecake, Things Never To Call Your Wife: Porky, Meatloaf, Big Bum

Sandra Newman
“She added in a tight, defensive voice that she panicked when she did jobs, it gave her existential panic. She could do them for a while, but it felt like darning socks in a burning building. Time was running out and . . . Did he ever get that?”
Sandra Newman, The Heavens

Dave Furman
“...it's essential that you don't stay in denial. You must make it known that it's difficult, that you're struggling.”
Dave Furman, Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting

Steven Magee
“I have been struggling with a myriad of health issues ever since I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) in Hawaii.”
Steven Magee

“People who laugh at your hustle or you hustling now, are the first people who will be asking for favors and help when you have made it.”
De philosopher DJ Kyos

Jyoti Patel
“You’ve turned away
your face from the truth
but, your heart
is still struggling to beat
with the zillion lies
you said to her.
- Truth”
Jyoti Patel

Steven Magee
“One thousand dead Americans daily from COVID-19 tells me the medical profession is struggling.”
Steven Magee

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Faith lets you see the possibility in every situation.
Others may see a desert but what you see is a place where virtually everything can be grown.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes