1. Lost his job 2. Got defeated for legislature 3. Started business and failed 4. Wife died of a fatal disease 5. Experienced nervous breakdown 6. Contested in election for speaker in legislature and lost 7. Tried for nomination in a political party and lost 8. Applied for post of Land Officer and lost 9. Contested for senate and lost 10. Contested for vice president and lost 11. Again Contested for senate and lost AND TWO YEARS LATER….. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF AMERICA
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1. Lost his job2. Got defeated for legislature3. Started business and failed4. Wife died of a fatal disease5. Experienced nervous breakdown6. Contested in election for speaker in legislature and lost 7. Tried for nomination in a political party and lost8. Applied for post of Land Officer and lost9. Contested for senate and lost10. Contested for vice president and lost11. Again Contested for senate and lost
AND TWO YEARS LATER…..
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF AMERICA
FAILURE
Does not mean (X)
You are a failure You have not yet succeededYou have learned something
You have accom- plished nothing
You have to do it in a different way
You will never be able to do it
You are not perfectYou are inferior
You have to start afreshYou have wasted your life
It means ()
You should try very hard
You should give up
It takes a little longerYou will never achieve God has a better idea!
You will get the idea if you have faith in Him
God has abandoned you
FAILURE
Does not mean (X) It means ()
WE CAN CHANGE / SUCCEED
BEETHOVEN DEAF RENOWNED MUSIC COMPOSER
DEMOSTHENES NERVOUS STAMMERER WELL KNOWN GREEK ORATOR
NAME WHAT WAS HE/SHE? WHAT DID HE BECOME?
ALBERT EINSTEIN
ORDINARY PATENT CLERK WORLD FAMOUS SCIENTIST
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
POOR FARMER’S SON PRESIDENT OF AMERICA
GOLDAMEIR AVERAGE SCHOOL TEACHER
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL
FRANKLIN. D ROOSEVELT
SICK AND BOTH LEGS PARALYSED
PRESIDENT OF AMERICA
HOMER BLIND GREATEST GREEK WRITER
HELEN KELLER BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB RENOWNED WRITER
THOMAS EDISON MATRICULATE GREATEST INVENTOR
NAME WHAT WAS HE/SHE? WHAT DID HE BECOME?
M.S. OBEROI SIMPLE CLERK ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHAIN HOTEL OWNER IN THE WORLD