A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.

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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

Awareness

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

- Warren Buffett

Integrity

"The greatest investment you can make is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

Personal Growth

"It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction."

- Warren Buffett

Personal Growth

"Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing."

- Warren Buffett

Motivation

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"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