The smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

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"This too shall pass away."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Hope

"There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Personal Growth

"No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Resilience

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Resilience

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Leadership

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"The youth of this generation have a greater capacity for obedience than any previous generation."

- Elder David A. Bednar

Strength

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

Strength

"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

Strength

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Strength

"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

Strength