No Progress Quotes

Everyone has struggles. Many teenagers struggle with self-esteem, stress, bullying, body image, drinking, and smoking. Many adults struggle with marriage, jobs, money, drinking, smoking, health problems, and stress. There is not one person that has an easy life with no struggles because it is impossible. Having struggles teaches us life lessons.

Imagine having the perfect life- you get into all honors classes, you get straight A’s, you are the first chair in the orchestra, you get into the A Cappella choir, you are on the varsity volleyball team, President of the Student Council, and you have a perfect home life. You have never had to face a single obstacle throughout your journey in life. When your whole life is like this, you do not know what failure feels like and will never experience the need to rise up after a downfall. There are many types of journeys one can take in life and dealing with obstacles has a prodigious impact on the outcome. The obstacles and hindrances are the things that shape us as we experience the ups and downs in life.

My mother once said , “Without struggle there is no progress.” I have to say I agree. You have to go through obstacles , such as struggles, to get to your goal. My goal is to travel the world , through this future journey one will have to overcome difficult situations. Much like the Greek hero Odysseus, one will have to face challenges to be successful , in my journey to travel the world there are obstacles I will have to overcome like; money to obtain transportation, separation from family, and illness of families or friends.

trying to change or overcome obstacles can be damaging. Life is full of struggles, but it

While diverse groups each exhibit immense talent and strength, a universal truth is that all people struggle at some point in their

Struggles are things that hold us down and must be conquered. Braverman and Hope from the novel Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer and my friend Sophia all have something in common. They all had struggles and overcame them in their own, remarkable ways.

“ If there is no struggles, there is no progress.” This famous quote was stated by Frederick Douglas. He was an african american abolitionist, civil rights leader, and social reformer that was born into slavery and faced many hardships in his life but eventually he overcame his difficulties and became a very famous colored man in a world full of slavery. In the book “Hope Was Here”, also several characters face struggles that require inner strength to overcome. Some examples are Braverman, Addie, and Hope. All of them had struggles but still overcame them. My great-grandmother had many obstacles in her life, but she still overcame them.

Over the years I have faced many trials in my life. Like Frederick Douglass, I had to fight and learn to make the best of a bad situation. He had to find ways to learn to read and write on his own, where as I had to learn to support not only myself but a new life alone. How we faced hardship greatly influences our success in life.

Everyone faces struggles in their life. Some allow those struggles to help build them as a person, others let those struggles tear them down. For me, I allowed my struggles to help me develop academically and personally. Without struggle there is no progress.

Struggling is a natural occurrence in everyday life. Take Salva Dut from A Long Walk to Water as an example. At the early age of eleven, he was separated from his family during a school shooting, later leading over fifteen hundred young boys across the Southern Sudan desert as teenager. In the documentary On the Way to School, a prime example would be young Jackson Saikong. Every school day, he would have to lead his sister on a nine mile journey, racing past aggressive elephants at only the age of ten. From Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water to the documentary On the Way to School, many of the characters featured show strong motivation toward their struggle, not wanting it to be meaningless any longer, thus finding their purpose through their goal.

In life there will be a lot of obstacles. Some obstacles just come out of nowhere, and some you may bring upon yourself. But without struggle you will not learn how to take care of yourself. Life is not always fare, you have to take the good with the bad. Be strong and keep moving. You will get there eventually if you stay focused.

“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” - unknown Struggle is something that everyone on the face of this planet must face at one point or another. Even though struggles are challenging and sometimes bad things that happen to us, we should choose to embrace them. Everytime we make it through something bad, we come out wiser and stronger than ever before.

In one way or another, we have all struggled in life. But what is life without struggles and hardship? Life has ups and downs, but is it fair that some people struggle more than others? Why do some group of people such as the Native Americans struggle tremendously than any other ethnic group? Native Americans have struggled and still struggle to this very day greatly.

Everyone has different aspects of life that come with multiple obstacles. As many think they aren’t able to overcome and moving fourth, believing they will fall apart and behind everyone else. Most of mankind has experience some type of obstacles and we all have a wide arrangement on how to cope and overcome. The truth is, we only see challenges and obstacles when we take our eyes off the goal. Every goal has a challenges but once we overcome the world becomes bigger.

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