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Anonymous Sat Nov 5 00:24:16 2011 No.2179379 [Reply] [Original]

Can someone tell me if there's a single term for the concept of "success through hard work?"

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 00:33:16 2011 No.2179386 File: 23 KB, 600x347, 1318301856554.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Discipline

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sat Nov 5 00:33:16 2011 No.2179387 File: 7 KB, 250x345, Trial-Of-Henry-Kissinger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Tenacity"? No... Drawing a blank.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 00:34:16 2011 No.2179390 Horatio Alger myth?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 00:49:16 2011 No.2179400 Yes. Success through hard work. PLEASE respond. I worked all night on that fucking line. ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 00:56:16 2011 No.2179403 >>2179400 Couldn't you just say perseverance

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 00:58:16 2011 No.2179404 >>2179403 >implying you can't persevere until you die but never succeed

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 00:59:16 2011 No.2179405 Achievement?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 01:00:16 2011 No.2179406 >>2179404 Isn't the perseverance it's own reward?

>>	personalitysucks Sat Nov 5 01:03:16 2011 No.2179407 Nintendo.

>>	Deist !!fMq8ZXuIWTO Sat Nov 5 01:09:16 2011 No.2179416 by 'single term' does OP mean 'single word'? Also, OP, we might be able to think of a single word that fits if you give us the sentence you want to put it in.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 01:13:16 2011 No.2179423 >>2179406 Elaborate?