Success
When Divine Intelligence wants a great man or woman to render some needed service in the world, the fortunate one is tested out through some form of FAILURE. if you are undergoing what you believe to be failure, have patience; you may be passing through your testing time. No capable executive would select, as his lieutenants, those whom he had not tested for reliability, loyalty, perseverance and other essential qualities.
Responsibility, and all that goes with it in the way of remuneration, always gravitates to the person who will not accept temporary defeat as permanent failure. The test of a man is the fight he makes, The grit that he daily shows; The way he stands on his feet and takes Fates numerous bumps and blows, A coward can smile when threes naught to fear, When nothing his progress bars; But it takes a man to stand up and cheer While some other fellow stars.
It isn't the victory, after all, But the fight that a brother makes: The man who, driven against the wall, Still stands up erect and takes The blows of fate with his head held high: Bleeding, and bruised, and pale, Is the man who'll win in the by and by, For he isn't afraid to fail.
Its the bumps you get, and the jolts you get, And the shocks that your courage stands, The hours of sorrow and vain regret, The prize that escapes your hands, That test your mettle and prove your worth; It isn't the blows you deal, But the blows you take on the good old earth, That show if your stuff is real. Failure often places one in a position where unusual effort must be forthcoming.
Many a man has wrung victory from defeat, fighting with his back to the wall, where he could not retreat. Caesar had long wished to conquer the British. He quietly sailed his soldier-laden ships to the British island, unloaded his troops and supplies, then gave the order to burn all the ships. Calling his soldiers about him he said: Now it is win or perish. We have no choice.
They won!
Men usually win when they make up their minds to do so. Burn your bridges behind you and observe how well you work when you KNOW THAT YOU HAVE NO RETREAT.