芸芸众生，谁不想成功，谁不想令世人瞩目，诗人在诗中展示了成功背后，包含多少辛酸，经历多少磨难，忍受多少痛楚。有道是“天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨”。如果我们能正视成功前的种种困难，勇于接受挑战；失败了，何畏惧，重头再来。那样，我们便成为了一个顶天立地之人。
献给年轻人的诗
If — Rudyard Kipling
如果 —— 拉迪亚德·吉卜林
IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
如果周围的人毫无理性地向你发难，你仍能镇定自若保持冷静；
IF you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
如果众人对你心存猜忌，你仍能自信如常并认为他们的猜忌情有可原；
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
如果你肯耐心等待不急不躁，
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
或遭人诽谤却不以牙还牙，
Or, being hated,
