1. Fire tests gold, adversity tests the strong. ——Seneca

2. The road is made by feet, and history is written by people. Every step a person takes is writing his or her own history. ——Ji Hongchang

3. The truth of life is like a strong drink. It would not be so delicious without repeated refining! ——Guo Xiaochuan

4. When a person uses work to welcome the light, the light will soon shine on him. ——Feng Xuefeng

5. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ——Edison

6. Running water will release its energy when it hits the bottom. ——Goethe

7. Adversity gives people valuable training opportunities. Only those who can withstand the test of the environment can be considered truly strong. Most of the great men since ancient times struggled through adversity with an indomitable spirit. ——Konosuke Matsushita

8. Wealth and honor are not obscene, poverty and lowliness are pleasures. The man here is a hero. ——Cheng Hao

9. If you want to achieve your goal, you have to picture in your mind the scene after the goal is achieved; then, your dream will definitely come true. ——Richard Daniel, the contemporary British motivation master

10. Every setback or unfavorable mutation carries the same or larger beneficial seeds. ——Emerson

11. Failure is the final test of perseverance. ——Bismarck

12. A failure only proves that our determination to succeed is still strong enough. ——Bo Wei

13. Only by turning the feeling of complaining about the environment into a force for progress is the guarantee of success. ——Romain Rolland

14. Winners often succeed by persisting in the last five minutes. ——Newton

15. The only secret to success is to persist until the last minute. ——Plato