What Is True Success and Failure?

True success is the ability to achieve what is enduring and lasting. The very act of persistently and correctly striving toward that goal is itself a form of success. Moreover, success is neither luck nor merely working hard; success is the effort to do what must be done, exactly as it should be done.

Visual Representing Struggle (Generated by Artificial Intelligence)

In fact, even the desire to struggle should be regarded as an example of success.

Visual Representing a Person Who Does Not Wish to Struggle (Generated by Artificial Intelligence)

Failure, on the other hand, is the state of not only failing to struggle but also not even considering or wishing to do so. That is, merely not struggling may not necessarily constitute failure. However, accepting an adverse present condition, resigning oneself to it, and feeling no dissatisfaction with it—despite the possibility of change and the capacity to act—is failure. A life ending in such a manner is the very essence of failure.

Visual Representing a Person Who Does Not Even Consider Effort (Generated by Artificial Intelligence)