Be encouraged by these inspirational quotes about life and struggles. Life has hills and valleys, challenges and struggles but it is by far not all doom and gloom. Amidst the vagaries of life is happiness, success,
comfort, compassion and the joy as obstacles are overcome. Each person along the way can appeal to others for assistance, or guidance, or just a friendly discussion. These inspirational and
motivational quotes serve to provide a resource to help you and others move over or around the hurdles and potholes of life. Share these inspirational words with those who are experiencing difficulties.
You may also be encouraged by these Poems About Life Struggles.
A friendship kindled is a friendship of value; struggles and problems seem much less pervasive with a trusted friend by your side.
Victoria L. Adenson
Friendship Poems
Take solace in your garden; it never denies that you are needed, and gives you what you need to manage life's torments.
Samatha Anne Marie Lynch
Garden Poems
I want to deserve all men’s respect; but here in the struggle for fame and self I want to be able to like myself.
Unknown, Myself
Inspirational Poems
Everyone faces struggles at one time or another but a Christian never faces them alone with God by their side.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Christian Poems
Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.
Marian Wright Edelman
Poems of Encouragement
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can’t
really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
Elisabeth Elliot
Quotes About The Bible
Don't waste time wishing the past was different, in the face of hardship, our spirit can be resilient.
Catherine Pulsifer, If Only If Poems
If we face a life stumble and fall - our family pick us up and get us going again...without them, life is hard to do.
Catherine Pulsifer, Family Relationships
Poems About Family
Life is not a smooth road. If it was, there would be no way to test perseverance or resilience.
Robert Rivers
Short Quotes
I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.
Author Unknown
Be Thankful Poems
But we don't see the struggles, the feats barely seen, the road that it took to get where they've been.
Catherine Pulsifer, Hard Work Not Luck
Poems About Luck
When trials are pressing, I'll joyfully bear, and wait for the blessing, but never despair
Daniel C. Colesworthy, I'll Never Despair
Life Mottos
Dreams give us sight of a better place, beyond the struggles we all face.
Catherine Pulsifer, Live Your Passion Poems About Dreams
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
George Herbert
The Oak Tree Poem
When everything is dark and dreary the yellow flower seems so cheery. The next dandelion you see - see this flower as pretty
Catherine Pulsifer, First To Appear
Dandelion Poems
God gives us His grace in the hour we need it. If we worry about the future now, we double our pain without having the grace to deal with it.
John MacArthur
Bible Verses about Anxiety and Fear
Every hardship you go through today prepares you for a better and glorious tomorrow if you only allow it to shape and mold you by learning from its hard lessons.
Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
Life Lessons Quotes
Life has its ups and downs but with you. No matter what we make it through.
Catherine Pulsifer, Sharing Life With You
Soulmate Poems
We know such hours, when after days of pain and nights when sleep was not, God gives us ease and peace and calm again.
Lucy Fletcher, True Rest
Poems About Peace
There is no value to life without purpose, nor is there any purpose worth pursuing without struggle.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Poems About Life
The Moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness in order to be seen.
Shannon L. Alder
Moon Quotes
The pages of the Bible are full....It helps with life's small and big climbs.
Catherine Pulsifer, Take A Look
Poems About Books
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca
Adversity Poems
Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive
Cassandra Clare
Fate Quotes
I have clawed my way up mountains, and I have muddied and bruised my body and mind on the way down into the valleys but, I have never been accused of ignoring any one in need on either side
of the valleys of life.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Poems About Helping Others
In life’s ring let’s be clowns; laugh and sing at ups and downs!
Wilhelmina Stitch, Let's Be Clowns
Smile Poems
If there is only one thing I've learned throughout the challenges and tribulations of life it is that God has always been with me to guide me forward no matter whether or in spite of any circumstance in life.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Inspirational
God Quotes
When you feel the reward of pursuing your passion is bigger than the risk, you may have found the magic combination of strength and courage.
Dale Roberts
Motivational Poems
Each must win his way through struggles and efforts to all noble attainments.
J. R. Miller, Aspiration and Energy
Poems About Strength
For on the days when we face life issues friends, food, and song come to the rescue.
Catherine Pulsifer, Good Life For Me
Life Is Good Poems
Lovingly, sorrowing, oft do we sigh, when the shadows of life bring tears to the eye
W. J. Slater
True Friendship Poems
Life is a struggle for peace, a longing for rest, a hope for the battles to cease, a dream for the best...
Edgar A Guest, The Struggle
Poems About Change
Allow positive thoughts to shape your life.
Christopher Michaels
Short Positive Quotes
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.
St. Boniface
Quotes About Church
Whether losing, whether winning, trust in God and do the right.
Norman McLeod, Trust In God, And Do The Right
Trust In God
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
True Love Poems
In life's ups and its downs, in its crosses or crowns, you must never go back on a friend!
John Imrie, Never Go Back On A Friend
Famous Friendship Poems
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
Never Give Up Quotes
Don’t admit that life’s getting your goat...when you’ve come to the end of your rope, tie a knot in the end and hang on.
Margaret Nickerson Martin, The End Of The Rope
Poems About Hope
Look misfortune in the face. Brave the beldame's rude grimace; ten to one 'twill yield its place if you have the wit and grit - just to laugh a little bit.
Edmund V. Cooke, Laugh A Little Bit
Poems About Laughter
Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.
David Cuschieri
Journey Of Life
If you feed your mind more positive self-talk than negative self talk you will create more positive results in your life.
Ben Samson
Positive Quotes
Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.
Franco Harris
Attitude Quotes
Life can be like a grave unless you choose to kick out an end and get moving.
Robert Rivers
Letting Go Poem
So when we are weak and wretched.....Then it is that God's great patience holds us closest, loves us best.
Saxe Holm, The Love Of God
Poems About God's Love
A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.
Shannon K. Butcher
Hope Quotes
'Tis well to feel there's one somewhere, as with life's struggles we contend...whom we may call a friend.
Lillian E Curtis, A Friend
Inspirational Friendship Poems
It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test.
Mahalia Jackson
Independent Quotes
For love...is the purpose of life; the purpose of struggle and turmoil and strife.
Edgar A. Guest, If Somebody Loves You
A Little Loving
Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer
Life Is Too Short Poems
Though dark and dreary be your lot and fortune frown on you to-day; to-morrow your luck may change and fortune turn the other way.
Lillian E. Curtis, Never Despair
Quotes About Luck
First of all, self-care is not an indulgence. It is an essential component of prevention of exhaustion and/or professional burnout.
Patrice Palmer, The Teacher Self-Care Manual
Take Care Of Yourself Quotes
Keeping your judgment to yourself and simply accepting people as they are, you are able to make more friendships on a positive basis.
Joanna Jackson
Meaningful Friendship Quotes
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
Paul Brown
Defeat Quotes
By racing and chasing, you soon lose your ground - be patient and still; in good time you will with wisdom be found.
Daniel C. Colesworthy
Don't Be Impatient
Consoling words the Savior speaks to all who are dismayed, and whispers to the lost he seeks, "'Tis I; be not afraid."
Amos E. Flint, 'Tis I; Be Not Afraid
Journey With Jesus
You are my friend, for you have smiled with me, my help and hope in fair and stormy weather
Nixon Waterman, You Are My Friend
New Friends and Old Friends
Quitting because of extreme struggle is sort of success, but quitting because of little inconvenience is insanity.
Amit Kalantri
Quotes About Quitting
It’s not realistic to expect yourself to have unshakable self-confidence. Everyone struggles with self-doubt and lack of confidence from time to time.
Barbara Markway PhD, The Self Confidence Workbook
Self Doubt Quotes
Why be happy when you can be ecstatically filled with joy and love.
Rosy Lee Anderson
Happiness Quotes
Retirement is one of life’s significant transitions. Virtually everything changes.
Larry Swedroe, Your Complete Guide to a Successful & Secure Retirement
Retirement Quotes
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear
and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin
Overwhelmed Quotes
Talent gracefully adorns life, but it is will which carries us victoriously through the struggle.
George Henry Lewes
Poems About Character
Truly, life is hard enough, encourage me with flowers, but better still, do pray for me through all these lonely hours.
Greta Zwaan, Give Me Flowers
Flower Poem
In each problem lies an opportunity to make better, to resolve, or to commence positive change.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Quotes About Positive Change
Do not let defeat be a failure, let defeat be a means of moving on to better things with new knowledge - if you take that type of attitude you will find success even in defeat!
Catherine Pulsifer
Success Poem
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
Steve Maraboli
Poems About Mistakes
The truth is this: we all have troubles in life but our attitude and how we view things will determine how we face and overcome any challenge or obstacle in life.
Byron Pulsifer
Solitude Poem
If you stand very still in the turmoil of life - and you wait for the voice from within -
you'll be led down the quiet ways of wisdom and peace -in a mad world of chaos and din
Patience Strong, Silence Wisdom Poems
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them.
Og Mandino
Life Quotes
Don't keep sitting in the audience of your own life. It is time to become the star of your own show.
Rosemary Peck
Cute Quotes
In fact, the best lessons you have to offer in life come from your struggles in the darkness and grit of life.
Lashawnda Jones
Poems on Life Lessons
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
Best Friend Captions
Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back!
Victoria Addino
Strong Quotes
When I feel overwhelmed and my stress levels rise, I stop and step back from the situation and put the even in perspective. I always ask myself - what difference will this make in five years time?
Catherine Pulsifer
Stress Quotes
Sometimes we can feel like we are not good enough but it is important to remember that we have nothing to prove others. Love and respect yourself each and every day.
Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Respect Poem
Being the best version of yourself is the most important aspect of your life to master.
Zac Dixon
Inspirational Quotes
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?
Brian Tracy
Helping Others Quotes
Then weep with the sad and laugh with the gay, making life brighter to all whom you meet
Mary C Ryan Tis Only A Rosebud
As we journey on Life's way. It's the simple things that please us like a willing kindness done.
John McLeod
Life Journey Poems
Look at my success. I didn’t achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years’ struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.
Mo Farah
Improvement Quotes
Those who overcome great challenges will be changed, and often in unexpected ways. For our struggles enter our lives as unwelcome guests, but they bring valuable gifts. And once the pain subsides,
the gifts remain. These gifts are life's true treasures, bought at great price, but cannot be acquired in any other way.
Steve Goodier
Challenge Quotes
The real sign of onward movement comes when the winds are blowing the strongest against you not with you
Byron Pulsifer
Never Say Fail
Let me but live my life from year to year, with forward face and unreluctant soul; not hurrying to, nor turning from, the goal
Henry VanDyke, The Three Best Things
If All The Skies
... look at each of these difficult situations as an opportunity to see the good, the elements that can help you become a better person, or as a catalyst to change, or to appreciate what you already have.
Catherine Pulsifer
Difficult Situation
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity Quotes
Nearly everyone struggles with loneliness at some point; you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who hasn't suffered at least a short stint of painful loneliness.
Kira Asatryan, Stop Being Lonely
Poems About Life And Love
Quitting because of extreme struggle is sort of success, but quitting because of little inconvenience is insanity.
Amit Kalantri
Quotes About Quitting
Improving your quality of life should not be a struggle; if you are not satisfied with your state of being, then throw your habits out the window.
Thomas Matt, Maximize Your Quality Of Life
Positive Thoughts
Remember, you will not get any awards for struggling alone, or suffering the most.
Fran Curcio, Simple Life Lessons from a Soul Sister now Grown
Short Inspirational Quotes
Life, for all, might become a bright dream, by assisting those whose trials and struggles are rife.
Lillian E. Curtis Lend A Hand
Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Adversity Quotes
Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to.
Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
J.D. Salinger
Learning Quotes
When I am struggling with my life I look up towards the sky and say; LORD you take over.
Joan Disantis
Five Finger Prayer
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
Stress Relief Quotes
Talent gracefully adorns life, but it is will which carries us victoriously through the struggle.
George Henry Lewes
Poems About Character
When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.
Kyo Shirodaira
Graduation Sayings
Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will continue.
Germany Kent
Life Choices Poems
There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wiser and better. The moment you shift your thinking from "I cannot" to "I must," you will
begin to see 'Beyond the Pain' and draw strength from within. Learn to see each obstacle as a stepping stone and watch your life change significantly.
Kemi Sogunle
Opportunity Quotes
Positive emotions give the child the motivation he or she needs to build up a set of useful skills, skills that will be valuable all through life.
Zayne Parker
Motivational Quotes
Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.
A.J. Darkholme
Memories Quotes
The awareness that we are fragile human beings experiencing a finite lifetime on earth and appreciating our lives can be powerful motivators for us to take action on our goals each day.
Steve Constantine
Appreciation Quotes
Oft 'mid the ruthless struggle for the simple life I yearn; and back to the home of my boyhood my restless thoughts will turn.
David V. Bush, The Simple Life
Simple Things
We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Expectations Quotes
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills
Failure Quotes
Get motivated, stay focused and work towards worthy goals each day with dogged determination.
Matt Bishop
Goals Quotes
Shadows never overtake the wisdom and attitude of those who see good rather than evil.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Attitude Poem
Will your- anchor hold in the storms - of life? When the clouds unfold their wings of strife?
William J. Kirkpatrick, We Have An Anchor
Poems
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
Life Journey Quotes
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
Winona LaDuke
Patience Quotes
The courage to admit when you're wrong doesn't show weakness. It shows your strength. Your integrity speaks volumes about you as a person.
Blaque Diamond
Courage Quotes
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
Difficult Times Quotes
A positive attitude is the resilience to life's tribulations.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Cheer Up Quotes
Christmas for some is a struggle, but others can help and bring the gift of giving to life.
Victoria L. Adenson
Inspirational Christmas Messages
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney
Trouble Quotes
Poems About Life Struggles
