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A woman is like a tea bag — you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

— Helen Keller

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

— C. S. Lewis

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

— Seneca

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

— William Wordsworth

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

— Horace

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

— Cicero

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

— Rumi

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

— Lao Tzu

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

— Maya Angelou

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

— Lao Tzu

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

— Albert Einstein

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.

— Khalil Gibran

If you're going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

— Confucius

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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