(2273 quotes found)
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”
Napoleon Hill
“Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.”
Tennessee Williams
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...”
“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation.”
Coretta Scott King
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.”
Frederick Douglass
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”
Paulo Coelho