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  2. Mental toughness - Wikipedia

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    Mental toughness is a measure of individual psychological resilience and confidence that may predict success in sport, education, and in the workplace. [1] The concept emerged in the context of sports training and sports psychology, as one of a set of attributes that allow a person to become a better athlete and able to cope with difficult training and difficult competitive situations and ...

  3. List of Latin phrases (P) - Wikipedia

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    Through hardship, great heights are reached; frequently used motto per ardua ad astra: through adversity to the stars: Motto of the Royal, Royal Australian and Royal New Zealand Air Forces, the U. S. State of Kansas and of several schools. The phrase is used by Latin Poet Virgil in the Aeneid; also used in H. Rider Haggard's novel The People of ...

  4. List of military unit mottoes by country - Wikipedia

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    Blekinge Wing: Styrka genom samverkan (Swedish for "Strength through cooperation") Skaraborg Wing: Vilja, kunnande, ära (Swedish for "Will, knowledge, honour") Uppland Wing: Labor, effectus, vigor (Latin for "Work, efficiency, satisfaction") Västmanland Wing: Per aspera ad astra (Latin for "Through hardships to the stars") Swedish Army

  5. List of university and college mottos - Wikipedia

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    Latin: Argentine virtue is strength and study [1] Buenos Aires Institute of Technology: Ad Lucem Serenitate Tendo [2] Latin To the light peacefully she goes [2] National University of Córdoba: Ut portet nomen meum coram gentibus: Latin Carry my name to the people National University of the South: Ardua Veritatem: Latin Through the difficulties ...

  6. Sisu - Wikipedia

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    Sisu is a psychological potential that enables the individual to tap into strength beyond their pre-conceived resources. Wielding sisu in the face of adversity helps individuals push through what first seemed like the boundaries of their mental or physical capacities. Sisu provides the final empowering push when we would otherwise hesitate to act.

  7. Courage - Wikipedia

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    Fortitude and courage are distinguishable in that fortitude is the mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity. [56] According to Presbyterian theologian William Swan Plumer, "There is also, in strict propriety of language, a difference between courage and fortitude. Courage faces and resists danger; fortitude ...

  8. Grit (personality trait) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, grit is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on a person's perseverance of effort combined with their passion for a particular long-term goal or end state (a powerful motivation to achieve an objective). This perseverance of effort helps people overcome obstacles or challenges to accomplishment and drives people to achieve.

  9. Per ardua ad astra - Wikipedia

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    Per ardua ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "through adversity to the stars" [1] or "through struggle to the stars" [2] that is the official motto of the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force, as well as the Royal Indian Air Force until 1947.