I knew a student paying his way through college who was so poor
that the wealthier students made fun of him. They were always
guying him about his short trousers, seedy clothes, and general
out-at-elbow condition. He was so stung by their jibes that he
made a vow not only to redeem himself from ridicule, but to make
himself a power in the world.
This young man has had most remarkable success, and he says that
the rebuffs he met with and the ridicule that was heaped upon
him in his student days have been a perpetual stimulus to his
ambition to get on in the world.
A successful business man tells me that every victory he has
gained in a long career has been the result of hard fighting,
so that now he is actually afraid of an easily won success. He
feels that there must be something wrong when anything worth
while can be obtained without a struggle. Fighting his way
to triumph, overcoming obstacles, gives this man pleasure.
Difficulties are a tonic to him. He likes to do hard things
because it tests his strength, his overcoming ability, his
power. He does not like to do easy things because it does
not give one the exhilaration, the joy that is felt after a
victorious struggle.--_Success._
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=Rebuke, Appropriate=--See SELFISHNESS REBUKED.
=Rebuke, Results of=--See TESTIMONY, FRUIT OF.