| Your life changes the moment you make a | | | | against oppressors, yet he achieved what |
| new, congruent, and committed decision. | | | | he always wanted. |
| - Anthony Robbins | | | | It was this passion for being unique |
| All stories of success have one common | | | | that made a young boy stand at the |
| element. You guess right, that is | | | | centre of the Sydney cricket ground and |
| Passion. Passion for what they want to | | | | tell his father "I shall never be |
| achieve. Enough passion to keep their | | | | satisfied until I play on this ground" |
| eyes from wandering away from the goal. | | | | and then not just playing there but |
| Total passion to finally see them | | | | creating history as Sir Don Bradman. He |
| through. | | | | was passionate about his game and ended |
| Passionate beliefs often make great | | | | his career with a record average of |
| sacrifices look easy and are the | | | | 99.96 runs. |
| foundation of success. Goutham Buddha, | | | | Aung San Suu Kyi's passion for a |
| at the age of 29, followed his urge for | | | | non-violent struggle for democracy has |
| knowledge. He left his wife, son and | | | | won her a Nobel Prize. Stephen Hawking's |
| kingdom to be one with the sufferings of | | | | incurable motor-neuron disease couldn't |
| normal human beings. After going through | | | | stop his passion for Physics and the |
| hardship and pain he finally experienced | | | | universe. 'Being kicked out of school' |
| enlightenment. More than 1500 years | | | | Bill Gates passion for winning made him |
| after his enlightenment, the Talibans | | | | world's leading business tycoon. All the |
| may be out to destroy his statues, but | | | | self-made millionaires on the globe |
| Buddhism remains one of the strongest | | | | scripted their success stories out of |
| religions in the world. | | | | their passionate goals. Not only did |
| Che Guevara, inspite of being an | | | | they know what they wanted but they are |
| Argentine, went to Cuba and fought its | | | | people who believed passionately that |
| battle of independence for the sake of | | | | they CAN. |
| his ideology. And then he quit his top | | | | If you think you CAN you are right. Just |
| ministerial posts in Cuba to fight for | | | | be passionate about it. And if you lack |
| African countries before coming to | | | | passion, then develop it because success |
| Bolivia and meeting his end. Che, of | | | | never comes till you are passionate |
| course, failed in most of his wars | | | | about it. |