The founder of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid, was asked about the future of his country. He replied, “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again.”
Why is that, he was asked? And his reply was, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men, weak men create difficult times. Many will not understand it, but you have to raise warriors, not parasites.”
The lesson of this story is that successful people and empires are not made what they are overnight.
Success is always an end product of failures, rejections, harassments, discouragement, attempting to give up, struggles and grace.
Those who pass through such ordeals have more tendency to succeed than those who sit idle.
The more difficult the journey to success is, the more sweeter is the success itself. The less difficult is the journey, the more the success is taken for granted.
