The Road to Greatness
Rough seas and storms make sailors. Emergencies make giant men. The effort to struggle to climb to a higher place in life has strength and dignity in it, and cannot fail to leave us stronger for the struggle.
Every failure will teach you a lesson that you need to learn if you will keep your eyes and ears open and be willing to be taught. Every adversity is usually a blessing in disguise. Without reverses and temporary defeat, you would never know the sort of metal of which you are made.
The beauty of a diamond would never be possible had it not been for the pressures of the environment that converts coal into diamonds. Then even after it has been mined it only reveals it true beauty when it has been chiseled, ground, and polished. Yet this is the price of liberating its greatness and beauty.