"Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle."

Generally people accept whatever fate brings them. They have neither the determination to succeed nor the willingness to devote the time and effort necessary to achieve success. This is their attitude towards life, which makes them ordinary men. People with character, integrity, good values and positive attitude succeed always.

Success of any person, organization, individual or country depends on how they think and act. Thus optimism is the first step towards success. "You are never defeated unless you give yourself up. You are never down unless you count yourself out; stand like an iceberg in the mighty ocean and let the winds of life beat about you but never at you. A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of little effort. Powers, talents, abilities lie dormant within us. But we never bother to bring them out perhaps we are ignorant and opportunities just pass away. Ignorance is not bliss. It is a misery, tragedy, poverty and sickness. We live in an information age. It is estimated that the amount of knowledge is doubling every year. With information so readily available it is easier to dispel ignorance. Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to driest, some to slip and others just to gargle. Knowledge is the potential power and it becomes power only when it is acted upon. But once it is acted upon it boosts the self-esteem and brings optimism.

Successful people are those who are daring, who take bold steps to start new projects. One should learn to be enduring. "With each sun that rises there is a new day, a new challenge, new opportunity for doing better but what is required is initiative to take the first step". "Start by doing what is necessary, them what is possible and suddenly you are doing impossible." Some things need to do done whether we like them or not. For example mother caring for their young. It may not be a pleasure always but sometimes painful too. But if we learn to like task, the impossible becomes possible. Success is getting what you want and happiness wants what you get.

The only way to be lucky and happy is to be successful; to leave nothing to chance but to work and work and work again. A man owes his success to the way in which he knows how quickly to seize the opportunities by the forelock and make the very best of every circumstance that presents itself.