Strength Quotes for Hard Times
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Still I'll rise.