Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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Silence is a great source of strength. — John Heider

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Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began. — Dennis Wholey

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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. - Joe Paterno

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ― Mahatma Gandhi

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The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people. — Isobelle Carmody

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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. – Mario Puzo

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I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

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