There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham.
Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty?
That efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements
and events? Now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth
cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one's
own. But even the most cynical, secretly admit that success exists; that achievement
counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women
are useless. To believe otherwise is to lake on a point of view that is likely to".
It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, in attainment,
and regard for posterity.