Struggle Quotes

"Before I was poor, struggling, but I feel good now."

"Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it."

"I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life."

"My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts."

"My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle."

"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me."

"I did not have to struggle to enter into films but my real struggle started after I became part of it."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

Frederick Douglass

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Orison Swett Marden

"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."

"Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won; you earn it and win it in every generation."

Coretta Scott King

"Say not the struggle nought availeth."

Arthur Hugh Clough

"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."

Wilma Rudolph

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible battles inside all of us – that's where it's at."

Jesse Owens

"Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

Oprah Winfrey

"Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power."

Malcolm X

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere."

"Freedom is never given; it is won."

A. Philip Randolph

“To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.”

“None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.”

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”

“I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.”

“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth.”