Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.

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"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

Courage

"The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"As a writer, you should not judge. You should understand."

- Ernest Hemingway

Creativity

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Elder David A. Bednar

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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Tunde Oyeneyin

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Henry Rollins

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