No one ever succeeds doing nothing. The beginning of failure is when you to achieve success. What differentiates a successful man from a failure is not their physical size or the height, it is their level of sacrifice.
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The only man who I feel do not need to work is the dead man. He has nothing to work for, nothing to live for, nothing to hope for, but you do. You live for something, you stand for something, you hope for something.
Why will you remain in your comfort zone or do things that will retard your success and expect to succeed above others, it is not possible?
To ascertain success, you need to keep going up, you cannot go down and expect you are making progress. You need to keep pushing forward, push till you are up. If you are a few mile to getting there, keep pushing.