SUCCESS
To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of intelligent persons
and the affection of children;
To earn the approval of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends ;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give off one's self without the
slightest thought of return;
To have accomplished a task, whether
by a healthy child, a rescued soul, a
garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with
Enthusiasm and sung with exaltation;
To know that even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.
--Anonymous
THIS WAS A
¢ failed in business at the age of 21
;
¢ was defeated in a legislative race
at age 22;
¢ failed again in business at age 24;
¢ overcame the death of his sweetheart
at age 26;
¢ had a nervous breakdown at age 27;
¢ lost a congressional race at age 34;
¢ lost a senatorial race at age 45;
¢ failed in an effort to become
vice-president at age 47;
¢ lost a senatorial race at age 49;
and
¢ was elected president of the
This man
was Abraham Lincoln
EVERY SUCCESS STORY IS A STORY OF GREAT FAILURE
¢ Henry Ford was broke at the age of
40.
¢ Lee Iacocca was fired by Henry Ford
II at the age of 54.
¢ Young Beethoven was told that he had
no talent for music, but he gave some of the best music to the world.
¢
In 1913, Lee De
¢
As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper
editors, who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to
draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed near
the church. After seeing a small mouse, he was inspired. That was the start of
Mickey Mouse.
¢ A New York Times editorial on
¢
One day a partially deaf four year old kid came home with a note in his
pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out
of the school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is
not stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to
be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal
schooling and he was partially deaf.
¢ In 1914, Thomas Edison, at age 67,
lost his factory, which was worth a few million dollars, to fire. It had very
little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort go
up in smoke and said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes
are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of disaster, three
weeks later, he invented the phonograph.
What an attitude!
IF YOU THINK
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you like to win, but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
QUALITIES THAT MAKE A PERSON SUCCESSFUL
--Vince
Lombardi
--Andrew Carnegie
--Calvin Coolidge
LUCK SHINES ON THE
DESERVING
¢
Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for
his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the
process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone
like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation.
Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen.
LUCK
He worked by day
And toiled by night.
He gave up play
And some delight.
Dry books he read,
New things to learn.
And forged ahead,
Success to earn.
He plodded on with
Faith and pluck;
And when he won,
Men called it luck.
--Anonymous