inner strength

Example Sentences

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It was a hard emotional transition, but the experience gave me discipline and inner strength.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

And with an extraordinary inner strength, but a great ambivalence as well.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

Still vulnerable and lonely and isolated and maybe somewhat awkward, but I wanted him to have a kind of inner strength.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

But the video reveals her to be a woman of enormous inner strength.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2024

Despite my romantic deficiencies, I gradually adjusted to township life, and began to develop a sense of inner strength, a belief that I could do well outside the world in which I had grown up.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela