Life is all about moving forward and learning. The only thing sure is birth and death. Struggles are momentary; it teach you how to gain success.
With failures, what you describe as struggles, life is like eating a strawberry cake without toppings. You cannot enjoy your success if you don’t know how failures feel.
Can you imagine the happiness of a kid when he learns to walk by crawling? For the child, falling and getting injured is a struggle. But, challenges are there to make you stronger. The rarest stones are found in the deepest mines.
How to overcome challenges in life?
The bigger the struggle, the sweeter is the success. You can break the ties of full struggle doors by following 4 steps in your day-to-day life.
First, there is nothing like instant success. Second, success comes with hard work and patience.
- Is the cause of your tension a struggle? Sometimes our negative attitude towards our surroundings is the source of our problem. For instance, you may be forcing yourself to do things just for the sake of doing. This is what develops a sense of hatred towards our lives.
- Take pleasure in doing things. Take some time off for yourself. Distance yourself from the virtual world and get connected to nature and relationships.
- Boost your serotonin levels. Be relaxed, and don’t burn out your neurons for unnecessary disturbances. You can learn a new activity or spend some time laughing in a comedy club.
- Stop panicking for small struggles. Everything happens in a flow. Keep your self-confidence boosted high. You are born to accomplish and glow, and that you will do. Have trust in your abilities.
Oprah Winfrey led one of the most struggling lives as a girl from her childhood. She was shammed for her weight and brutally sexually assaulted by her relatives.
But her lust to prove her presence bought her fame later in life. She started from scrap to become an international superstar of today.
101 Inspirational quotes to ponder
Many times, life does not give us what we expect. These are the times of examination. The almighty in the form of struggle tests are endurance and capabilities.
Words are mightier than the sword. However, you can seek inspiration in the form of quotes as enumerated below.
20 Quotes on life struggles and how to face them
As Steve Maraboli has exclaimed-
“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”.
Brene Brown-
“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both”.
Anonymous-
“For true success ask yourself these four questions: why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
Anonymous-
“Smile like a baby, shine like a dewdrop, be confident like the sun, fly like a butterfly, and trust me, no one can stop you from being successful”.
Jawaharlal Nehru rightly explained-
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
Harivansh Rai Bachchan has said-
“Remember, no one is stopping you from lighting a lamp in a dark night”.
S.N. Goenka-
“Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight, you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs.”
Mahatma Gandhi believed-
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave”.
Valmiki propagated the thought that-
“You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way”.
J.R.D. Tata beautifully phrased-
“When you work, work as if everything depends on you. When you pray, pray as if everything depends on God”.
Ruskin Bond describes life as a war
“And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
Rabindranath Tagore said-
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
Khushwant Singh said-
“Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.”
Kiran Desai-
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”
Alexander Graham Bell-
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success”.
Abraham Lincoln-
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing”.
Anonymous-
“Every problem might not have a solution right now, But do not forget that every solution was once a problem”.
Anonymous-
“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others”
Anonymous-
“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow”.
20 Inspirational Quotes for Students
David Bly-
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted”.
David Frankley-
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him”.
Anne Frank-
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”.
Steve Jobs-
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life”.
Albert Einstein-
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don’t stop to marvel”.
Christopher Reeve-
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable”.
Julie Andrews-
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th”.
Washington Irving-
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it”.
Dale Carnegie-
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all”.
Frederick Douglas-
“Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free”.
Max Heller-
“We must cherish our samenesses because we have many more samenesses than we do differences…and our main sameness is they we are all God’s children”.
Oprah Winfrey-
“The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at the table…join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses”.
The Dalai Lama-
“Indeed, the challenge of the new millennium is surely to find ways to achieve international – or better, intercommunity – cooperation wherein human diversity is acknowledged and the rights of all are respected”.
James Crook-
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd”.
Maya Angelou-
“Nothing will work unless you do”.
MalcolmX-
“I had learned early in life that if you want something, you had better make some noise”.
George Lorimer-
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction”.
Vincent Van Gogh-
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced”.
Woody Allen-
“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up”.
Anonymous-
“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God”.
20 Inspirational Quotes for Business
John Quincy Adams-
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
Jeff Bezos-
“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.”
Thomas Edison-
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Bill Gates-
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Omar Hamoui-
“If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.”
Josh James-
“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”
Jason Fried-
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
Reid Hoffman-
“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
Joel Spolsky-
“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”
Steve Jobs-
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Lakshmi Mittal-
“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”
Rob Kalin-
“The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
David Karp-
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
Tony Hsieh-
“Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.”
Jason Calacanis-
“Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”
Larry Page-
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
Steve Case-
“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”
Benjamin Franklin-
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
20 inspirational quotes to become Self-Dependent
Socrates-
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
Marty Rubin-
“Love unconditionally, but rely only on yourself.”
Abdul Kalam-
“Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance?
Abraham Lincoln-
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
Charlotte Bronte-
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will”
Kim Hanks-
“Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone”.
Unknown-
“Never put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket”.
Anonymous-
“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your shadow leaves you when you are in darkness”.
Anonymous-
“Expect more from yourself than others”.
C.S. Lewis-
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose”.
Beyonce Knowles-
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone to tell who you are”.
Susan B Anthony-
“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”
Epicurus-
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
Henry David Thoreau-
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
Amanda Boyden-
“Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.”
Joe Fraizer-
“Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson-
“Trust thyself- every heart vibrates to that iron string”.
Mahatma Gandhi-
“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within”.
Patricia Sampson-
“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward”.
Henry Ford-
“If you think you can do it, or you think you can’t do it. You are right”.
20 Powerful Quotes to face Covid-19
William James-
“It’s our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome”.
Anonymous-
“When it rains look for rainbows, when it’s dark look for stars”.
Gabe Grunewald-
“You can still make something beautiful and something powerful out of a really bad situation”.
Marie Curie-
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less”.
Greg Kincaid-
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear”.
Christopher Robin-
“You are braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think”.
Vivian Greene-
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain”.
Joseph Campbell-
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us”.
Dave Hollis-
“In this rush to get back to normal, use this time to decide which parts are worth rushing back to”.
Lee Iacocca-
“In these times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive”.
Friedrick Nietzsche-
“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”.
J.R.R. Tolkien-
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us”.
A.A. Milne-
“We are going home because that’s the best thing to do right now”.
Anonymous-
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”.
Joyce Meyer-
“We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others. But we all go through trials and tribulations. That’s why we have the gift of faith”.
Ellen Burstyn-
“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely is being alone can be”.
Robert A. Heinlein
“Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done”.
Eckhart Tolle-
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness”.
Lou Holtz-
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it”.
Victor Hugo-
“Even the darkest nights will end and the sun will rise”.
Anonymous-
“We have to survive this. We have to be together. Everybody’s life is important”
Final thoughts-
I hope the above quotes and inspirational words from great authors of their time will inspire you to overcome the difficulties in your life.
Happy Reading!!
