The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Samuel Smiles, (Dec 23 1812-1904), Scottish author; He was best known for Self-Help, 1859 which enshrined the Victorian values associated with the gospel of work.