If there is no struggle there is no progress

Progression is almost impossible without a struggle in one way or another. The struggle usually involves sacrificing and continuing
regardless of ups and downs. Prominent leaders are often times great examples of the correlation between struggling and progression.
There are few successful leaders that did not struggle at some point on their ladder to greatness and success. On some occasions a
person may have fame and fortune but did not have to struggle to have it. Sometimes a person can have these things through family
inheritance or by twisted fates of luck. Though they did not struggle to get it, most likely, someone gave up blood, sweat, and tears for
their benefit.
In the medical field most patients have to struggle before they can begin their road to wellness. The whole concept is like an infants
growing process. The infant must learn to crawl before he or she can learn to walk.
Many people can relate to the idea of If there is no struggle there is no progress. Some people deal with it daily, especially
college students and the working force of the world. Indeed, without struggle there is no progress.

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Some, like philosopher Karl Marx, are dogmatic in believing that history can not progress without a certain degree of
struggle or conflict in society; in other words, that conflict and struggle are essential to the progression of society.
Overcoming gender and race disparity both illustrate the importance of facing struggle and conflict in the grand
scheme of achieving progress. Without a struggle or a conflict, without something to fight for, history stays stagnant
and progress cannot be made to the same degree.

Personal Motivation: Without Struggle There Is No Progress

As each day ends and another begins, the words of Frederick Douglas ask us as individuals to recognize the
relationships between life's daily struggles.
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions, yet made to her august claims have
been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all absorbing and for the time being putting all
other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing."
"If there is no struggle, there is not progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation are men
who want crops without plowing up the ground."
"They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
"This struggle may be a moral one: or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a
struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will
submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and
these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those who the oppress."
Even though these words speak of politics, these words also speak to the human condition of potential, achievement
and motivation. Douglas understood the human condition all too well. Humans need struggles or obstacle to motivate
them toward progress and achievement of their goals.