Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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