There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

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"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."

- Albert Einstein

Compassion

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

Leadership

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

Success

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

Balance

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity