Definition Essay On Success

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Success is something, so near and dear to our hearts. Can you imagine if you spent half of your life trying to be a success, trying to really be someone and you really have this bold ambition to reach the moon. But then, when you actually become that someone, you realize, the person that you have become is not what you wanted to be at all.
Many a times, people associate success with making or having a lot of money. But does possessing a lot of money or having fame really mean success?
Success isn’t really getting there, success is making a decision that you are going to get there and move towards it. Success is a journey, not a destination. It’s like the kids in school, getting “C” grade as an average but they are working hard to get “A” and “B”, and they are giving everything, they have got. They are successful person. It’s like a person who has accumulated a million dollars and is working towards an estate of 5 million and he is progressively moving in that direction. He too is successful. Each one of us is as successful as the other, it has nothing to do, whether it’s a mark for a kid in school or it’s an amount of money for a businessman.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. …show more content…

Before Sir Edmund Hillary, no one had ever been to the top of Mount Everest, but he got there. It happened because he made up his mind that he was going there. He went to Nepal in 1951 and he failed. But in 1952, he went back again. Everybody told him that he was crazy because a lot of people had dies trying to climb Mount Everest. He went and he failed again in 1952 but in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood right on top of the world. His success started in 1951 when he started to go for the summit. The Wright brothers were successful the moment they made up their mind that they were going to get the plane off the