"I don't have to succeed, I have to succeed." What does this sentence mean?

It means that the decisive factor of achievements, events and career success is not necessarily me, but I must participate in and contribute to the successful process.

Source: Modern Hu Shi's To Graduates 1932

My friends, when you are most pessimistic and disappointed, it is the time when you must summon up strong confidence. You should believe that there is no futile effort. I don't have to be responsible for success, but I don't have to contribute my skills. We may not succeed, but our efforts will never be in vain. )。

Analysis: Everyone should make the greatest contribution to the revolutionary cause, but the success of the revolutionary cause is not necessarily in my hands, not necessarily in my term of office, nor necessarily in my lifetime. This is the lofty realm of life. Only when a person forgets himself for his career and abandons the ego for the sake of the "big ego" can he achieve "I don't have to succeed".

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Practical significance:

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We say that a blueprint needs not only scientific decision-making, but also ideological realm. What ideological realm? I don't have to succeed. "

This exposition profoundly reveals the dialectical unity relationship between long-term interests and immediate interests, revolutionary interests and personal interests, and has important guiding significance and practical pertinence for solving the tendency of some leading cadres to get quick success and instant benefit in their work.

Do not forget your initiative mind, bearing in mind his mission, with the spirit of "I don't have to succeed" and the historical responsibility of "I must succeed", keeps historical patience, carries forward the spirit of nailing, draws a blueprint to the end, and works one after another, striving to create new achievements worthy of the times on the new journey of realizing the goal of "two hundred years" and realizing the Chinese nation's great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream!

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