1. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

— J.A. Froude

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2. “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

— Bob Marley

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3. “Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.”

— Denholm Elliott

4. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

— John C. Maxwell

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5. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

— Seneca

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6. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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8. “Some people don’t like you just because your strength reminds them of their weakness. Don’t let the hate slow you down.”

— Thema Davis

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9. “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”

— C. S. Lewis

10. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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11. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Bruce Lee

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12. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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13. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

— Audrey Hepburn

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14. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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15. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

— Seneca

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16. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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17. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

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18. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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19. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

— Napoleon Hill

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20. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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21. “My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

— Michael Jordan

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22. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

— Bruce Lee

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23. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

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24. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

— Rikki Rogers

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25. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

— Alice Walker

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26. “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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27. “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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28. “You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

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29. “You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.”

— Peter F. Drucker

30. “What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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31. “God will give you strength when you think you can’t go on. He will give you joy when you should be discouraged. He can make a way when it looks impossible.”

— Joel Osteen

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32. “The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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33. “Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.”

— Marcus Buckingham

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34. “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong

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35. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.”

— Muhammad Ali

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36. “I am the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

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37. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

— Ayn Rand

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38. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

— Nelson Mandela

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39. “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”

— Socrates

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40. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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41. “Strength is life, Weakness is death.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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42. “Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

— Orison Swett Marden

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43. “Pain is weakness leaving the body.”

— United States Marine Corps

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44. “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

— Seneca

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45. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

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46. “Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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47. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

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48. “I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and thrown thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

— Muhammad Ali

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49. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

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50. “All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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