deserve it!!

"According to the classical or Socratic perspective, the conditions for thinking clearly and well - e.g. intelligence, health, a certain amount of wealth, freedom, leisure - do not guarantee that one will think clearly and well. Nothing can guarantee understanding. Indeed, from this perspective nothing can guarantee a successful outcome to any human enterprise, practical or theoretical. In Churchill's phrase, one cannot guarantee success, one can only deserve it." (Harry V. Jaffa, Professor Emeritus, Claremont Graduate School)

What Professor Jaffa said is worth questionable. Is it right that conditions of success do not guarantee success? Is it right, as thought Churchill, that success has to be deserved?
What I can say is that everyone is successful. We are all successful even if we cannot all excell in the same fields. There are persons who can be good football players, whereas others are suited for selling. We can henceforth say that success is public propriety that nobody has mastering over it in the way to exclude others from it.
But, success is not a simple given thing. We must deserve it. In effect, only through belief, actions, hardwork, and determination, we are able to get it. It is not our conditions that absolutely and necessarily make us get the success. We are not mere products of our conditions. We can change bad conditions to good ones. We can improve satisfactory conditions in which we live. But all this begins by the will. It's up to us!
I also want to add that we need a bit of chance. Even though chance seems to me less important, it has sometime its importance. Those who succeeded did not rely only and absolutely on themselves, there were something over which they didn't have control, and that, in decisive sense, helped them to realisze their dreams.

To conclude, I once again insist that the absolute truth is that we are all successful. No matter where we come from, or where we live, success is not the private domain of a restricted group of people. And the relative truth is that only hardwork, determination and some other good values are real conditions for success. It's relative because we have to take into account the role of chance, even less important.

Friends, act now, work hard, face challenges, don't give up. And also, pray in order to put in your side some chance. And finally, deserve it!!!!!!!!!

In leadership,

PS: you can find the article of Harry jaffa following this link http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.8/pub_detail.asp