CURATED COLLECTION

Growth Through Struggle

The things that press hardest against you are often doing something useful — if you let them.

18 quotes found

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Memory is a weapon. Use it to remember the struggle, to forge the future.

—Claribel AlegríaPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Central America

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Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

—Bruce LeeMartial Artist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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Always putting limits on what you do will spread into your work and life.

—Bruce LeeMartial Artist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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To be yourself is the greatest challenge. You have to be strong enough to do it.

—Marilyn MonroeActress

Post-War ERA • North America

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You are the fixer. You are the builder. You are the one who puts yourself back together.

—Nikita GillPoet & Author

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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The truly great man, in adversity, does not lose his will to fight.

—Lu XunWriter, Essayist & Critic

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Fortune is not on the side of the faint‑hearted.

—Torquato TassoPoet

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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You may shoot me with your words, but still, like air, I'll rise.

—Maya AngelouPoet, Memoirist & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of what I have been.

—ColetteNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

—Paulo CoelhoNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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I believe in taking what you got and making it work. That's my motto.

—Tiffany HaddishScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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The market is like a battlefield; if you stop, you die.

—Zhang RuiminAuthor & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • East Asia

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Terror made me cruel; and rage made me wild.

—Emily BrontëNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The system has failed to crush my spirit.

—Winnie Madikizela-MandelaActivist & Politician

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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To be an artist is to fail as no other dare fail.

—Ocean VuongPoet & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • North America