When people succeed, it is because of hard work

[Sung_Tung]

Topic:
“When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.

People in the world desire for luck and success. They say a successful person is very lucky. However, from my perspective, I totally agree with the quotation that “when people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” In this essay, I will attempt to support my opinion.

First of all, luck does not come accidentally. Only the luck that is created by ourselves is the real luck. It will stay with us for our long life. Thus, we should work hard to achieve it. Take Maxim Gorky, an unlucky man for example. He was born in a very poor family and had to work hard to earn his living from an early age. However, with the dream of following art career, Gorky always read, studied feverishly and expended his strength in every possible manner. He then successfully became a great writer and at last, worked as head of the Writer's Union. This is the evidence that people can succeed if they put great effort on their goals, not wait for luck.

In addition, people seem to depend on the luck if they succeed one time. A man who hit the jackets one time always waited for his luck second time. With the dream of becoming rich on the twinkling of the eye without losing any effort, he sold his own houses, fields and other fortunes to buy as many lottery tickets as he could. The end of his life was that he lost everything except for the useless papers.

The key of luck and success is somewhere in your hand. You are keeping it, the matter is that you want to use it or not. That means you should alter yourselves for the better. Working hard is the shortest way leading to your success.

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[Mixmixi]

Hi sung
In my opinion, when you agree with a statement, you should directly talk about that statement, I mean, here you should talk about hard work only which may lead to success, but in your second body paragraph you are talking about the people who depend on the luck, which has nothing to do with hard work. Again, I think your reasons are not enough my friend, you need another reason to develop your ideas in an appropriate way. I think another revision will help you my friend.

Mixmixi
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[Kitosdad]

Mix, you are becoming so good at making intelligent comments that I may soon be able to retire and walk my dogs all day long. Well done my friend.

Kitos.
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[Mixmixi]

:-)) Thank you my friend for your exalting, but I should mention that nobody can do what you are doing here Bill. There maybe lots of high educated people in this forum, but nobody can encourage the people to study or motivate them or even give them confidence. You know, I am a kind of shy person, or I should tell you that I kinda was, but now I can talk with a high confidence and see my progress. I was not able to do this work without your efforts and that's why I believe that no one never ever can do what you are doing. God bless you my friend.

Mixmixi
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[Suspensi0n]

Can't we talk about the 2 statements but say clearely which one we are defending ? This topic is not the good example but when it is about television for example ("do you think tv is a good invention ?"), the 2 statements can be defended. I could say "at first, tv was a good invention because it allowed people to have access to culture" and then "but, now, we are more and more aware of the silliness of tv (reality shows...)". I can have 2 opinions no ?
I hope you understand what I mean...
Thx

suspensi0n

[Mixmixi]

Hi suspensi0n,
In my opinion when you agree with something, that means you like it, you want it, you accept it or if I want to be clear, you think it has advantages not disadvantages. When you disagree, the situation reversed. If you want to talk about either of advantages or disadvantages you should say I am partly agree or something like that. In this situation you should talk about the benefits as much as the problems. note that, this is my opinion.

Mixmixi
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[Suspensi0n]

Thank you Mixmixi. So, to be sure I understand you, I am allowed to defend both situations right ? The person who will correct my essay won't take off points because I didn't take a precise stand ?

By the way, thank you all for this website and the forum, it is really good and so useful ! I'm doing my TOEFL in less than 2 weeks, I'm a bit stressed and this forum helps me to keep self confidence.

[Mixmixi]

Dear Suspensi0n,
My TOEFL exam is about 16 days later, and I have lots of stresses too. :-(
About the question, I think it's the logical possible way that it can be. You know, if they were planning on choosing only one option, they probably would warned us for the limits in selecting the answer.
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[Suspensi0n]

"if they were planning on choosing only one option, they probably would warned us for the limits in selecting the answer." Of course, what you are saying totally makes sense ! Thank you.
Oh you are also a TOEFL taker ?? I thought you were a kind of "teacher" because you're answering to everybody here ! Can I ask you where you are from ? I'm from France.

[Mixmixi]

I am answering to people, because others are answering to my questions, I really believe that we should help each other as much as we can. I am from Iran my friend.

Mixmixi
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