“If”, by Rudyard Kipling is a great poem to acquire inspiration from. It is basically a step by step guide on how to survive in the world and succeed. I quite literally take this poem to be based on one common factor, which is success. The whole gist of the poem is one must keep a narrowed focus, avoid dishonesty and hate, risk everything just to lose it, but be willing to start over again. A successful person must watch everything they have dedicated themselves to, get destroyed, but get up and rebuild it. The successful also have to be sure to handle success and failure with grace. If they can do all this, Kipling states, “they will be a man, and will have the world and everything in it.” In the first stanza Kipling says, “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too.”. In laymen terms I think this can be taken as, if one can keep their mind when everyone else is losing theirs, if one trusts their self and ignores the naysayers, but prepares their self for the struggle of doing something even though everyone says its impossible. The first stanza finishes with Kipling saying, “dont deal in lies”, “dont give way to hate”, “don’t look too good”, “nor talk too wise”, these points alone are enough for someone to live life by. All of these points Kipling makes can be understood as don’t stoop to someones level, however, don’t ever think you are
The great physician George Sheehan once said, “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” Sheehan meant in this quote that you can do anything if you are willing to use your willpower and energy to do so. This leads to the theme shown in Where the Red Fern Grows by Mr.Rawls. In the development of the book Where the Red Fern Grows the main theme persistence will lead to your own success is shown strongly throughout.
In summary, I’ve learned that being confident and working hard can make you overcome your obstacles. Also you need courage to overcome your obstacles and by working hard, you can now do things that you couldn’t because you’ve learned it over your hard work that you put into
I feel that in order to achieve personal success in our society you need 3 key things. For one, you need to have determination. In our culture, we seem to have a universal ideology along the lines of “keep going, and you will succeed eventually.” I feel that these idea’s are incredibly true, and have been shown to be effective every time. A good example of this trait in one of the texts we read is in the Odyssey when Odysseus needed to get back home, and despite the odds being against him, he never gave up. He always kept going, and when the going got rough, he got back right up and started over again. Another trait is intelligence. Because we have gone away from warrior culture in modern times, academic success is more than mandatory to achieve
I find it really interesting how Kipling did what many Indian-English writers never dare to do. He transmitted his views and beliefs through his work. Criticism was not something that prevented him from stopping, it helped him find the confidence to continue. You mentioned how he also found inspiration from the different places that he lived in throughout his life: England, India, and Africa. Which influenced many of today’s writers to write about their surroundings. You also mentioned his most famous work, Kim, which I had not really heard about. Though I can now see why many people were intrigued by its plot.
When you succeed you need to faliure and successful person will tell you that they had failed, but those failures are what made them successful.People with success can lead to other success,this is shown with many people around the world in many different industries.This is mainly shown by the music industries,like other artist shout out or make song with unknown or not well know artist.They had overcome many obstacles an example is school,family problems,and negatively of review of loves ones and friends.One example of this is shown filmmaker Cole bennett’s,his failure can be instructive by teaching or helping others to become more successful than even him.
Many people try and many people have failed. Everyone hopes to succeed in something, whether it be anything from sports to seminary, school, or just life. Every day there are people who invent things, they try over and over again until it works out. There are many successful people in this world and they didn’t get there easily. Success is something earned not given, and comes with trial and error.
A lesson I took from the story about achieving success is that no matter what obstacle you encounter, you need to keep pushing forward to your end goal and beyond. Certain situations can cause us to pause or if they’re severe to completely give up on our goals.
Before success, there is always a process in which you first start with. Many people start after acknowledging a moment in their life that motivates them to do more. Many of these successful people come from a variety of unique backgrounds and a lot of them from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as poverty, a single-parents’ household, or even abusive parents. These causes, however do more than inspire themselves, but others who see their success story. This results in a way where it gives people a change of mindset to prove those people wrong and move on from that disadvantaged background. Another thing that can come from this is the support of others and being able to create new and healthy relationships with others who would help lead them to success. I see
The most overall successful people in the world didn’t simply follow a straight path to success. As human beings, there are more than enough mountains to climb and fears to overcome. I have found myself in some of the most difficult situations at times and I somehow made my way out of them with tougher skin to work with. Through these seemingly insurmountable challenges, I persevered and have found that there is hardly any such thing as luck. There is only hard work and laziness.
I was born in Bombay, India in 1865. My parents are John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Macdonald Kipling. My parents named me Rudyard because they were so moved by the beauty of the Rudyard Lake area. I was happy in Bombay with my family, but there is a tradition in British-India where the children are taken to England to live with another family. My sister, Beatrice, and I, were taken at the age of five to Southsea to live with Captain and Mrs. Holloway for six years. I recall it as an unpleasant time.
A great man once said, “In order to succeed, we must first believe we can”, this great man is Gandhi. I’m not sure how many times I’ve heard I can’t finish school, I can’t go after my dream, I can’t be who I believe I need to be because people like me don’t succeed. Maybe you personally believe that, maybe someone close to you has said that to you, or maybe it’s just the statistics in the environment you’re in. No one but you knows your situation, but it’s also your choice how you want to change that. Want some examples on who prospered? How about Liz Murray, Oprah Winfrey, and Marshall Mathers III? These three people grew up in situations where they should’ve thought, “maybe I won’t be getting out of here, and maybe I can’t go to college, or become famous.” I will be talking about these three people and how they achieved their goal. How they overcame the odds that were thrown at them, and show you that you too can succeed.
But the reality of life is that success does not come from pure luck, status, or
Rudyard Kipling’s attitude towards the British Empire was significantly negative. The novella essentially expressed Kipling’s feelings towards British Imperialism and his overall frustration with the British Empire. However, there are several positive qualities of the Empire pointed out by Kipling several times throughout his novella. Despite his mixed feelings, he is ultimately dissatisfied with the British Empire, claiming that it is “the White Man’s Burden”. Kipling was a steadfast imperialist, living in a time of British domination and oppression. He shared similar outlooks with the natives, that the majority of them were oppressed by the government and the wealthy. The upper class was greedy and wanted working men to do all of the work for them so that they could reap the profits. Kipling conveys his attitude towards British Imperialism through parallelism and figurative language.
“Well it’s all right,” they start of every sentence of every second stanca, making it very clear that while they advise us to “do the best [we] can” if we don’t it will be all right. The attitude of Kipling has towards live is a harsh one, something we can see in his poem. He demands enormous tasks of his son/ the reader like: “watch the things you gave your life to, broken” … “and build’em up with worn-out tools”, while most humans would give up after such a misfortune he expects of his son and the readers to move on, which is great, but hard advice. While the Wilburys almost say the opposite: “even when the sun don’t shine” … “ we’re going to the end of the line”, which basically means no matter what happens it doesn’t really change anything, at the end we all end up at the same stop,
The largest difference between these poems is the demographic they are written for. “If” is undeniably male-dominant in comparison to “The Paradoxical Commandments” which has advice directed at anyone who chooses to read it. The first indication that “If” has advice specifically given to males is in line three when Kipling says, “If you can trust yourself when men doubt you,” This line could have easily been adjusted to “… when people doubt you,” to allow all readers to relate to it. The second time Kipling makes it obvious his words are for male-readers only is the second line of the final stanza “Or walk with Kings --- nor lose the common touch.” Kings are clearly masculine, and as powerful as a person can get in Kipling’s eyes. The final line of the poem “And --- which is more --- you’ll be a man, my