Anyone who wants to be successful should digest the present condition. In the same way, you should study hard centering on the present condition. This doesn't mean to welcome the present condition in order to study hard. You cannot go the way of success and happiness without taking a position of denial of the present situation.

Everyone in your class cannot become the best at the same time. Never. There are failing students, too. If you failed in school, you are worse than those who do not know failure because they don't go to school. If any negative obstacles stand in your way, you must overcome them. In that case you have to try as many times as required. To win public recognition and to ensure your future position, you have to go the way of ordeal as many times as you need to. If you have not had such results in the present situation, you have to give a satisfactory analysis of the reasons for that.

When you go to school, you have to be the best in order to represent the whole school. It is not easy to be the best. If you can pride yourself on the fact that you are bright and clear saying, "I'm bright and clear...," you might once become the best, but you will eventually be second to those who devote themselves to study.

Then, how do you endeavor? You should spend a great effort, more than anyone else, to break fresh new pathways. You should endure hardships longer than anyone else. Through the process of your life the foundation for the glory of victory can be established. You can understand this from you own experiences.

Then who will meet the bright future? It is not the man who enjoys the present fun and gets into step with the present pleasure, but the man who can tolerate and endure the present ordeal to set up in the sphere of the present situation the future value and pay a high price with his life to become the heir to the future. (45-31)

Many people want to learn more these days, so they study. They devote all their energies to a certain field of study to be distinguished scholars through the world. What do they try to get? They try to digest the concepts and contents left by many people throughout history in the field of their study and by all means to make use of them in a short time. (28-261)

You have to win the victory. What do you have to do to win the victory? You have to fight with so strong a will that you will win twice while others win once, and that you can sleep half an hour while others sleep one hour, and that you can eat half a meal while others a whole meal. Here is the secret of the victory. It depends on how many hours you can spare for it and how much labor you can put in, and how much capital you can invest. Like a student preparing for an entrance examination for university, you have to fight with time, determination, and endeavor.

The failures must be those who ate more than others, or who slept longer than others. In other words, they must be those who spent their lives more comfortably than others in even one thing. (19-143)

You must make it a hobby of devoting yourself to your study all night long. (67-225)