Which is important For Success - Desire or Faith ?

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Posted: 16 years ago
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When asking what is the more important to success between desire and faith, you could expect to find different answers. One of the most common answers might be faith in oneself. But could faith in oneself be the basis of success? Much might depend on what do you mean by success.😊

In being able to answer this question, you will have grasped the rope that will guarantee you a higher profile in life. This doesn't necessarily that in being a success you have to become a public figure and lose your privacy. What being a success means is you are able to overcome some obstacles in your life to achieve certain goals that you have put in place.😳

For some people success might mean being popular among their friends. Other people might think that popularity is something that is worth striving for and believe that are worthy of what they perceive to be a greater success and aim at becoming a national sports star or a politician or an esteemed academic or business leader. If you have become disabled due to an accident and are unable to walk, just being able to walk again would become a major success.😃

For a young man to be able to walk again in the face of the most unlikely probabilities of doing so, many people would say that he would require a lot of faith. In some cases, those who have overcome their disability and are able to walk again, the individuals have claimed they had faith in themselves. Even where people have claimed faith in a divine being as being the reason why they are able to walk after an accident having caused their disability, other people have refused to accept this, and say that it is the faith a person has in himself.😛

It is argued that regardless of how great a desire a person may have, desire alone will not enable a person to become successful. A person needs to have faith if they are going to overcome obstacles and be successful in their endeavor.😊

However, when you think about which is the more important out of "desire" or "faith" in achieving success, you would have to agree that if you have no more desire to be successful in achieving your goal, you would most probably give up.

When you talk about faith, you are not really talking about desire but about a set of beliefs that something can be achieved or is possible to accomplish under certain circumstances. There is a major distinction to be made between the two motivations.😃

Desire can come about as a result of different environmental factors. The word "desire" is usually defined as "a longing for something". If a person has a desire for friends or to be popular, depending upon how great is the person's desire, will depend upon how much the person will want to succeed in fulfilling that desire.

If you are thirsty, you will do anything to quench your thirst. Thirst like hunger is a desire that will motivate you. Likewise, if you have a strong enough desire to be successful to fulfill any endeavor, you will pursue that aim until you achieve it or you lose your desire.😃

Yes, your desire to be successful will be the determining motivator as to whether you will achieve the success you may currently long for.😊

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lakshmim_84 thumbnail
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Posted: 16 years ago
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i feel both are equally important - desire for the goal and faith in yourself that u can achieve that goal
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Posted: 16 years ago
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My veiw..Believe is always in a concept ...... a God, a heaven, a hell, a certain theology, a certain system of ideas.....Believe is of the mind and faith is of your whole being.... Believe is borrowed, faith is your own immediate experience.😊 You can believe in God, bt you cannot have faith in God.😃 You can have faith in the trees, bt you cannot believe in the trees. Faith is existential, experiential....so keep faith in ourself...then we can gain anything....thats my believe...😊
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Both.
You have to believe that you will be successful one day.
But you need the desire to get there.
If you have nodesire then no matter how much you believe you won't get anywhere.
If you don't believe in yourself then the desire will be hindered.
Aisha xxx
Summer3 thumbnail
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Desire = Driving Force n Hunger for success
Faith = hope and belief in something or someone, Faith in oneself
is confidence
A few other qualities will be useful. like
Patience and Perseverence
Luck and Karma
Intelligence and common sense and talent
Connections
413185 thumbnail
Posted: 16 years ago
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down to earth heard work and a dream to channelise it.
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Both Faith and desire are required

Faith is foremost
but a person needs the desire, self-belief as well as faith to succeed
if one doesn't give it there all and yet has faith they won't succeed
its only when u work hard and have faith will u succeed

i think i just reiterated the the point aisha made
only she put it better
_Angie_ thumbnail
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Posted: 16 years ago
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i wud say - faith & desire propelled by destiny 😉 I still remember the long discussions we had on free will 😆
91118 thumbnail
Posted: 16 years ago
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I think it's easy to 'desire' things, and I'm sure most people are capable of it. It's easy to have goals; the hard part is to achieve them. So my pick is faith. Without faith, desires will remain desires and will not reach success.
Sujal_Fan_No1 thumbnail
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Posted: 16 years ago
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I think that Faith is more important
The things that u may desire u may not always get, But ur faith in ur self and ur religious faith is always there to keep u going.

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