Success demands singleness of purpose. The only way to succeed in anything is to give it everything. The road to accomplishment, it is said, beckons only those who can persevere and persist.

 

Thomas Alva Edison, who invented the electric bulb, worked for nearly 18 hours a day. He said, "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my invention come by accident, they came by work." Abraham Lincoln worked hard and surmounted many hardships with his tremendous willpower and rose to become the President of the USA. Mahatma Gandhi relentlessly worked for India's freedome. In the process, he sacrificed a lot of his personal comforts and enjoyment.

 

Nothing comes to us on a platter in this world. One has to labour and earn anything he needs - be it knowledge, or money or fame. As John Ruskin had corrected put it, "If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. If food, you must toil for it and if pleasure, you must toil for it, as toil is the law."