This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.

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"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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"If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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"Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities."

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"Small aim is a crime."

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"You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear."

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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

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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