Five Personal Qualities Essential for Achieving a Better Life

There are five important, personal qualities that one must learn to develop to achieve success and a better life.

In the mid-1980s, the Gallup organization conducted one of the most extensive surveys into the reasons for success ever conducted in America. They selected 1,500 men and women whose names and biographies had appeared in Marquis ’s Who’s Who in America , the most prestigious register of noteworthy individuals in the country.

They asked them, at great length, what they felt were the r...