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When People Succeed
" When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success".
Do you agree or disagree with quotation above?
Use specific reason and examples to support your opinion.

Hard working is the main key to every step of success but luck has also some role to achieve those successes. So many people's are there in this world who work very hard but still do not meet their basic need. They are below the line of poverty and are dying of starvation. From my everyday experience and observation I can totally disagree with the statement. I think people should have good luck also to lead their hard work towards success.

At first, I would like to give an example to support my opinion. Famous football player Diego Maradona was nothing more than a good player among his friends, before he found by a coach, playing football amazingly in a ground. Then he took maradona and trained him, letter he become worlds champion football player. So far as I know about him every single person who has listen about football or who love football, know his name. This achievement is not only the result of his hard work. To get found by coach is his good luck.

Furthermore, Without hard work it is not possible to find your destination, you should have update knowledge and skills to finalize your task. It doesn't mean that luck has nothing to do with finding your destination, it brings opportunity and chances for you to show your talent and skills, to express and prove yourself. To illustrate, when I was in college i had one friend, who was very smart, talent and very hard working but he couldn't attempt his final exam because of his cycle accident on the first day of final exam and got late for graduation, but luckly he got chance to work with the professor.
Even being well prepared he couldn't attempt his exam and even without graduation he got chance to work on his professors lab. These ups and downs in his life is not because of his hard work but because of his luck.

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