Humility

Humility
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In addition to persistent, ongoing effort, continued success
requires humility. If you grow arrogant after a few
accomplishments, you're not likely to have many more.

With each success you gain more confidence, and that's
great. When you've done it before, you know that you can do
it again.

Yet even as your confidence level grows higher and higher,
do not make the mistake of discarding your humility. For
humility keeps you reasonable, respectful, thankful,
thoughtful and realistic, and those are all qualities
essential for continued success.

Thinking that you're entitled to something just because you
want it is a reliable recipe for failure and disappointment.
Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you
must create value in equal measure.

While it is certainly possible to accomplish things without
humility, those accomplishments will be empty and
short-lived. Those people who enjoy meaningful success and
fulfillment year after year and decade after decade are
those people who know the value of humility.

Choose to be strong enough and smart enough to live with
genuine humility. The rewards for doing so will show up
throughout your whole life.

Ralph Marston

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