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There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should not to do. Success is not limited to any one area of your life. It encompasses all of the facets of your relationship: as parent, as wife or husband, as citizen, neighbor, worker, and all of others. Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of all the parts: body, mind, heart, and spirit. It is making the most of your total self. Success is discovering your best talents, skills, and abilities and applying them where they will make the most effective contribution to your fellow men. Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

    Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. Success is not arriving at the summit of the mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is a perpetual growth. Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. Success is accepting the challenge of the difficult. In the inspiring words of Phillips Brooks: “Don’t pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.”

本文作者以非常嚴肅的語氣，列舉九條關於成功的定律。第一條指出：成功的基本原則就是「恪守本分」，意即「成功是做你知道你該做的事。成功是不做你知道你不該做的事。」，接下來作者闡明成功是涉及人生的各個層面，包括發揮人際關係中個人角色的扮演、人格的整體發展、智能的發揮與運用、心態的健全、勇於面對失敗以及終身不斷的學習。打破了一般人心目中，成功僅限於名利雙收，或是高高在上的刻板印象。最後作者以美國作家菲力普‧布魯克斯的話：「不要祈望工作適合你的能力，而要祈望能力適應你的工作。那麼你所從事的工作不足為奇，而你卻會成為令人欽佩的典範。」勉勵世人勇於接受困難的挑戰。增強了它的說服力。