“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
Source: Kitchen (1988)
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“Force overcome by force.”
Vi victa vis.
Pro Milone, Chapter XI, section 30
Variant translation: Violence conquered by violence.

“In life, great people always come from having faced and complicated situations.”
Original: Nella vita, le grandi persone provengono sempre dall'aver affrontato e superato situazioni complicate.
Source: prevale.net

Pt. 2, Ch. 1: The discovery and assumption of old age: the body's experience, p. 288
The Coming of Age (1970)
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 67-68