Hard Work Is The Key To Success

Hard Work is the Key to Success

"One percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration"Ð'--Edison's definition of genius has often been quoted to define success as well. Even before Edison, the rigors of success were described by painter Michelangelo thus: "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."

Achieving success is almost like finding GodÐ'--the destination is the same, but the roads are as varied as the seekers. All you need to do is choose your pathÐ'...

But what is success?

Success may be described as the realization of an aim and for the realization of any aim hard work is essential. Hard work helps us to develop our potential to the maximum and strive for excellence in any field.

Hard work makes us better prepared to face adverse situations. Hard work helps an athlete to persevere in a race and win it , it helps an average student to become extraordinary, it helps to transform destinies.

"Success is basically about how you can turn adverse situations in your favor."

So, focus your energies in a concentrated manner on your goal and then start perspiring for it. The choice of the goal and the effort taken in reaching it are complementary: if you want to achieve something for the love of it, and not because it is the done thing, no amount of hard work would tire you. As De Bono puts it: "Successful people do often enjoy their work that it does not seem like work." According to a recent survey, success earned through hard work was the foremost factor responsible for a contented life.

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Behind every human effort lies a hope for success. So keen is his desire for success that he fails to see any value in failures. But one must remember that failures are the pillars of success. They provide us an opportunity to realize our shortcomings so that we can constantly strive to improve ourselves.

"Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible."

People who are capable of turning adverse situations in their favour through hard work are the ones who truly define success. Hard work can make the impossible possible , the improbable probable and the inevitable evitable.

Gujral joined an art school and become a painter. "Normally, an artist struggles to develop a distinctive