People succeed because of their hard work; luck has nothing to do with

success.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant
examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.

Sample Answer 1:
Many people are successful in life, which can be explained not only by
their hard work. In this essay, I am going to consider that luck is as
important as the ability to dedicate our time and energy to work.
We must acknowledge that without a deep understanding of what we do
and how we do we can hardly achieve positive outcomes. There are
millions of employees who do not go beyond their duties, not moving
deeper to comprehend that the process is about. Consequently, they see
only a visible side of the iceberg. They are quite satisfied being paid a
decent salary and having some bonuses. Such people do not look for
challenges; they treasure stability and are not ready for changes. They
can spend a whole life doing one and the same work, even if it is
extremely boring and irritating,

On the other hand, there are absolutely different people who do not
only dedicate all their time to work but comprehend all the stages,
distinguish the bonds and even make efforts to improve these
processes. Needless to say, it takes a lot of time and inner strength.
These people are said to be "burning at work", as they cannot imagine
their existence without it. The job for them is not only a source of
wealth but something they are fond and proud of.

Undoubtedly luck plays an invaluable part in climbing a professional

ladder. For example, I worked as a teacher of English in Ukraine. 5
years ago it was my first attempt to take part in the programme
"Excellence in Teaching" held by the American Department of Education.
Despite all my efforts, I was not able to go further than the semifinal.
There were two opposite feelings struggling within- the desire to give up
and the enormous intention to win. The most unbearable thing was that
I could not figure out where I had made a mistake. The next year I filled
in the same application forms and wrote exactly the same essay. To my
amazement, I became a winner and was granted a scholarship at
George Mason University, Virginia. I doubt it can be explained other
factors than the luck.

Overall, hard work cannot be underestimated. But only with luck a

person can achieve recognisable success. We all should dedicate
ourselves to our jobs and climb new summits.

[ by - Helen Dmytriieva ]
Sample Answer 2:
At the present time, people believe that only hardworking people will
succeed and there's no place for luck. I totally disagree with the rubric
above due to the fact that people cannot earn money without luck and
with no luck people won't be able to get a job and it will be proven in
the following essay.
Firstly, since the dawn of time people believed to luck, for example,
people always carry some kind of talismans or chokers. In the Ireland,
people believe that green clover will bring them money and luck. And
the situation has not been changed at the present as well. You can hold
a questionnaire and ask strangers "do they believe in luck or not?" I'm
sure that 100% of people will say ‘yes’; because the luck is an
inalienable part of the life of human beings.

Secondly, without luck people won't be able to get even a job. For
instance, when people looking for a job, they are searching them on
newspapers and magazines and they don't know what expects them
there, they only rely on luck and trying to find a suitable job for
themselves. Furthermore, even at the school sometimes kids are getting
their marks by luck, which means that teachers sometimes can mix up
jobs and mark the student wrong. It's also a clear example of luck.

On the other hand, if people will rely on only luck they will not get
anything, truly luck is with us but it helps only when we work hard. For
example, in difficult situations when people cannot make a choice
between something, they are choosing only by their instincts and if they
work hard and learn a lot, they know which decision to make, it all
comes from experience.

After analysing both sides of this issue, I have concluded that despite
the hard work, people always need at least the grain of luck for the
successful life.

[ by - Akmal Sharipov ]
Sample Answer 3:
Every person wants to be successful in life. They have been trying their
best, studying or working hard to reach what they wish for. Some
people believe that success is about hard work. They argue that luck
does not have a part in this case. People succeed depend on how big
their effort to get what they want, not about fortune. But I disagree with
the opinion because I think that success is about effort, pray, and luck.

There are many things that people do for being successful in life,
especially in their careers. They spend the time to work as hard as they
can and as much as they are able. Success becomes their goal so they
push their selves to get that. Successful people in this world are them
who always are responsible, honest, hardworking, and lucky.

Sometimes people feel very confident and they just focus on their effort.
They are too busy trying their best to achieve something so they forget
that there is an important thing besides an effort: that is luck. I do not
want to say that hard work is not important, but I believe that luck
influences the result of our effort. For instance, occasionally people have
tried their best for doing something but in the end, they do not get what
they want.

Many people forget that the biggest power in this universe is God, not
themselves. Furthermore, thinking that hard work is the only thing to be
success sounds not wise. There were few people fail to reach their
dreams although they have worked hard for it. They have spent much of
their time to try their best. But who knows, they get something which is
not expecting. Is because of luck? Maybe yes because the effort is not
enough to be successful. We need luck and definitely, we need God.

In conclusion, I believe that success is not only about how hard we try
but also our luck. Every human has their own luck and their own fate
but they have to still try. People should respect the process, not just the
result. What happens in future will depend on our effort and the
blessing of the Almighty.
[ by - Farahdina Bachtiar ]
Sample Answer 4:
"Success is always a journey but not a destination". I feel that success
cannot be a place but it is a part and journey of one's own life. The
author of this topic says that people succeed in their lives only because
of the hard work but not the luck. According to me, both will play vital
roles in every individual person's life. In the below paragraphs I will
justify how both are important to succeed.

Firstly, I would like to say that without hard work even God will not help
you out in coming over the things in life. So, one should work hard to
earn anything. I say this because there are many people around the
world who tasted success because of their immense hard work. It is a
sheer illusion that one comes up in life without hard work. For instance,
everyone knows about the president of America. He was born in a poor
family in Kansas, his father somehow managed to send him to the
school for education. Then he really worked hard and secured seats in
Columbia University and then to his dedication, he completed his law
from Harvard Law University with scholarships and stipends.

Now I would like to put emphasis on the luck which is also a required
one in success. One may be really hard working but if the place where
he or she is residing is underdeveloped then it will be very difficult to
achieve the feat. Not only that when we read the stories of great
people, we can observe that, they had a coordinating family through
which they succeeded, they are not lucky here. One such example is the
legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. He is a well-known cricketer in the
world. He was such a lucky person that he not only had a very good
coach and his parents' support but also got a chance to play
international cricket at the age of 16, which I feel is terrific. He used to
be busy with the cricket schedule and his wife use to take care of their
children, so he is lucky enough to have all this.

In the end, I would like to conclude by saying that it is a combination of

both hard work and luck that makes a man successful in life in all
respects. Having one without another is like a car without any fuel.
[ by - Avinash ]
Sample Answer 5:
Many people think that to be successful someone should rely on working
hard and luck has no role in success. I completely disagree with this
notion that success only depends on hard work. In my view, the
importance of luck should not be ignored to be successful.
Firstly, Lucky people have more advantages than unlucky people. For
example, in IELTS exam, to be lucky it is very important to manage to
get a high score because you confront a lot of topics in the exam and if
you are lucky, the topics may not be tough for you because of your
knowledge about them. In the speaking test, you must opt to cue card
that is a vital part of your score. If you are not familiar with the topic in
the cue card which you choose, you could not achieve to get a high
score in the exam even if you study hard and learn a lot of vocabularies.
On the other hand, if you know a variety of vocabulary about the topic
that you choose, you can get a high score and pass the exam even
maybe this is the best score you have ever got. Therefore, to be lucky
sometimes is as important as to be hard-working.

Secondly, Luck is essential to be successful in the professional life. For

instance, one of my friends, his name is Mehmet, is a kind, smart, and
hard-working person, but he is still in the same position since he began
to work. However, one of our mutual friend, his name is Ali, is also hard-
working but at the same time, he is an amazingly lucky person because
he embarked on working the same position in the same company.
However, because of having one more certificate than Mehmet, he was
promoted to the director post. As a result, he earns a higher salary than
Mehmet.

In conclusion, In my opinion, success not only rely on hard work but

also rely on to be luck. Thus, lucky people have always advantages to
accomplish what they want compared to the unlucky people.

[ by - Ahmet Tekin ]
Sample Answer 6:
Success is the ultimate goal of everyone. All of us are doing our best to
achieve success in different fields of life as work and study.

People try to achieve success through many ways; some of them are
hard workers, they depend on their efforts to gain success. Others are
relying on their relations with important or authorised persons to reach
their goals. In addition to the previous, there is a category of lucky
people where luck plays important role in their lives and helps them very
much.

Luck, in my opinion, has a great effects on the people's life, as it can

shift their ways into different directions that may change their lives
completely to the better, for example: Lionel Messi, the most famous
football player in the world, was a son of very poor family in Argentina
and suffered from a medical problem while he was children related to
his growth and bone formation. The luck leads a scout of one of the
biggest football club in Spain to see his skills while he was playing in his
area's street in Argentina and presented him to the club, where he
obtained the due care and now Lionel Messi is may be the most famous
person in the world. Beside of that, luck and coincidence can serve
humanity in a positive way, no one can deny the role of luck in the story
of Newton and the apple which lead after that to discover the gravity
rules.

I tend to see that, hard working is the first step of success and it is a
mandatory thing, but also luck is very important. So, from my point of
view, I think they are complementing each other.

Last but not least, It should not be left unmentioned that success is the
normal result of working hard and one should not only depend on
his/her luck for a long time to achieve success because it may not work
for many times.
[ by - Waleed Hassanain ]
Sample Answer 7:
There has been a debate whether or not luck plays a part in success.
Some people argued that hard work is the only thing that helps people
to succeed, whereas others think that luck also contributes to success.
Personally, I agree with the latter.
Hard work is definitely crucial when it comes to success. Without any
hard work, it is highly unlikely that someone would succeed. For
instance, there might be a good opportunity for someone to establish a
cyber-security company given the current demand on that field, but if he
is unwilling to work hard on developing the firm, it might not flourish.

In my opinion, success occurs when one is willing to commit to one

thing, prepare for the right opportunity to come and snatch it when it
arises. Steve Jobs would be a good example of this when he developed
iPhones despite the popularity of other non-touch screen phones at the
time. Thus, when touchscreen phones were finally in a boom, he was
well-prepared and made good use of the opportunity.

Nevertheless, I believe that luck is also needed to be accomplished. This

is because one has to be in the right place at the right time. An example
of this would be a person who has the ability and perseverance to
develop a website similar to Google. While he might work really hard on
it, if the person does not have any connection to the technology world, it
is unlikely that his website would gain much attention.

In conclusion, I think being hardworking is really important to be

successful. Still, luck plays a role where having the right opportunity to
the right person is also required for success. I do believe, however, that
it is more important to keep working hard rather than simply waiting for
luck to approach us.

[ by - Helen Natasia Lim ]

Sample Answer 8:
It is believed that people will achieve their goals and have a successful
career if they work hard, and luck has no effect on it. To a certain point,
I would agree that some people are succeeded due to their diligent and
hard working cultures, but I do believe that luck also plays an important
part in people's life.
On the one hand, it is true people could get their highest achievement if
they work hard and diligently. People who have great determination,
integrity and positive thinking attitudes would have a different point of
view from the ordinary workers. And with their outstanding
performances, it is obvious that they will generate a more productive
works and extraordinary results. These successful people believe that
there are not other factors that affected their success except for the
hard-working culture.

On the other hand, although some people might not believe in luck,
others feel that luck has affected their performances and achievements.
There are people who have standard working performances and could
not give significant contributions to their companies, but they are
promoted by their superior. In another case, there are several salesmen
who do not approach their potential customer aggressively, but their
sales performances are beyond the target. And for these groups of
people, they are convinced that luck has truly affected their careers.

In conclusion, some people believe that the only way to success is

through hard work and luck has nothing to do with it. To a certain
extent, I would agree with the statement, but some people are also
succeeded to the factor of luck, therefore I think each people have their
own way of life and we should not compare each individual.

[ by - Darwin Lesmana ]