By Mark Wright 
Let’s accept the fact; expecting an easy and smooth life is nothing but just a way to fool ourselves. When reality and hardship strikes us, we often find ourselves blaming almost everything instead of accepting the fact that life has always been like this for everyone.
In this article we handpicked the best collection of inspirational quotes about life and struggles to make you realise that life don’t offer free cookies to anyone. Whatever you want or seek is on the other side of your comfort zone.
Life is all about struggles and pain. All that differs from person to person is the way how you motivate yourself and battle the hardship. Those who see it as a new challenge rise up against all odds and those who seek an easy life stays at the bottom hoping struggles will fade away by themselves.
Each one of us is struggling with something and fighting our battles everyday in hope to be a better version of ourselves and to live a fulfilled and satisfied life. From the minute we wake up to the moment we comfort ourselves in the arm of sleep, we are continuously facing new challenges that we have to overcome to see the brighter side of the life.
You can’t separate struggle with life and vice versa. If you still think you can, you better wake up soon.
60 unique inspirational quotes about life and struggles
1. If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about,
then I don’t know what is. Backseat Goodbye
2. I’m pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I’m tougher than I used to be. There’s been a lot of hardship along the way. But that’s what life is. And it’s how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you’re going to be. Nathaniel Rateliff
3. Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot. Ziad K. Abdelnour
4. Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live. Paulo Coelho
5. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. Les Brown
6. The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. Samuel Smiles
7. Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. Donald Trump
8. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
9. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Laozi
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10. I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
11. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Wendy Mass
12. The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they won’t. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life. Yasmin Mogahed
13. I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life. Diane Ackerman
14. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem
15. 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.
16. Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. Napoleon Hill
17. Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. Saint Augustine
19. All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI
20. We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. Lauryn Hill
21. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie
22. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Breault
23. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee
24. The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship. Norman Douglas
25. In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett
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26. If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain. Paulo Coelho
27. Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. Mark Twain
28. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller
29. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
30. Life has no romance without risk. Sarah Doherty
31. Have confidence in who you are and don’t be afraid to go for what you really want in life. Holland Roden
32. Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Steve Jobs
34. In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. Nikos Kazantzakis
35. It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela
36. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe
37. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius
38. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
39. Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. Kevyn Aucoin
40. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. George Bernard Shaw
41. A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. Chin-Ning Chu
42. Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Sherrilyn Kenyon
43. Man is not made to understand life, but to live it. George Santayana
44. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
45. It’s a hard life… but if I could, I would do it all again. Natalia Makarova
46. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine
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47. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William Butler Yeats
48. Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
49. If you stop struggling, then you stop life. Huey Newton
50. I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. Abigail Adams
51. To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. Anatole France
52. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. Nicholas Sparks
53. The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there’s a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding – that existence is a struggle. Harvey Keitel
54. Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. Martin Bormann
55. The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. Sivananda
56. So you think you’ve found the solution but it’s just another illusion. Bob Marley
57. How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle! Mehmet Murat Ildan
58. Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them. Louisa May Alcott
59. I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things. Patricia Piccinini
60. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Ted Turner