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Success Essay

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~~”If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

What is success?

Is it the process of doing a task and receiving a positive result, or is it simply achieving ones own personal goals?
One’s ability to succeed in life is almost directly related to an image of the perception of what success is. Many of America's most successful businessmen, such as J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, understood what it took to survive in the rapidly evolving business world. Their belief was that success is tangible only through smart business …show more content…

Success is about setting personal goals, and following through with them. The goal can be anything like graduation, good grades, getting a job, etc. Whether you achieve a specific, desired result or not, is irrelevant, you succeed simply through the attempt. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; who’s face is marred by dust, sweat, and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” (Roosevelt)
But do all people share this opinion on success? To some succeeding, or winning, is the most important factor in their life. To a college basketball coach, like Mike Krzyzewski, “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once and a while; you don’t do things right once and a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit, and unfortunately so is losing.” However, I disagree with this opinion.
Win or lose, success comes by attempting tasks that are difficult and challenging. To most of us, tying a

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