Success don't come to lazy people. We don't get success by favor, we get success by hard work. A saying goes thus: "favour is better than labour".
Ask 91% of people in the world, they will tell you they want success not labour. Success you did not labour for you will not know its value. Before you favour a man, you must be convinced in your inner man that such a person deserves such a favour.
Take for instance, you have two sons, and various types of companies. One of the sons is committed to the company's affairs and the other is not committed. You wouldn't want to favour the one that is not committed to the business because he knows nothing about the company even though he is the eldest of your sons, instead you would want to entrust the company to the one that would not destroy what you have built for years.
Behind every favour, there must be a labour. The road to success does not have an end. Success is the key to our greatness, but greatness does not come to people that are not serious.
I have heard of people, when they fail, they blame others for their failure. The opposite of success is failure. When embarking on the road of success, always have this in mind that failure is bound to come. But some persons would say they don't believe in failure. But the Creator of the universe made success and failure.
It is stated that: "Faith without work is dead". Whether you believe in failure or not is not the issue here, but it is your hard work that would determined whether you succeed or you failed.
Abraham Lincoln failed five times looking for a seat in the white house but the sixth time he was elected as the president of the united state of America.
Abraham Lincoln failed five times but he never gave up. When you are trading on the road to success, don't give up because its not yet over. It is only when you give up that it is over.
Thomas Edison who invented electric bulb, tried for 10,000 times before he could succeed. It does not matter how many times you failed, what matters is your hard work.
A mouth does not make success, but people with big heart and hard work. When you submit to failure, this signifies that you are lazy.
"When Thomas Edison was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. When he set out on his own, he tried more than 9,000 experiments before he created the first successful light bulb" Thomas Edison's quote.
To the hard working people, success is always their aim because they know that before a gold can be refined it must pass through the fire. Success without history is like a success without a foundation.
It is the history to your success that makes you a great person. I believe every successful person have history on how they failed in one way or the other and stood up again.
When a child is been born, that child must pass through a process of life. Our challenges started right from the day we were born. Before a baby grows, there are stages in life the child will pass through. First stage that child sees very faintly, thereafter her sight becomes clearer. The child learns how to seat, crawl, standing and falling down then finally her feet becomes firm. Last stage is talking.
Even though its not easy for the child to do all these, but the child keeps pressing on till she succeeds.
This is how the road to success is. You will stumble on many obstacles but at the end, you will stand to succeed.
Conclusion:
The beginning does not matter, but it is the end that justifies the means.