It has rarely been illustrated more convincingly than in the life story of this man, his age is in the ( ).
-Failed in business (22)
-Ran for Legislature - defeated (23)
-Again failed in business (24)
-Elected to Legislature (25)
-Sweetheart died (26)
-Had a nervous breakdown (27)
-Defeated for Speaker (29)
-Defeated for Elector (31)
-Defeated for Congress (34)
-Elected to Congress (37)
-Defeated for Congress (39)
-Defeated for Senate (46)
-Defeated for Vice President (47)
-Defeated for Senate (49)
-Elected President of the United States (51)
That's the record of Abraham Linclon - one of the greatest Presidents of the United States.
Thomas Edison spent 50 years and had thousands of failures before he revolutionized the world by inventing and patenting the incandescent light bulb. Because of his desire to created the incandescent light bulb, he was one of the most persistent people in history.
The invention, in which Edison had the most failures, was one of his most famous. His persistence also led to many other great inventions. Edison had thousands of attempts and thousands of failures. He once said, "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." Edison did amazing things simply by persevering.
I love this message, especially in honor of the upcoming President's Day. And as a Mom, I feel like I have way more failures than successes, but this tells me to just keep at it, there is hope! :)
9 comments:
I've really been on a courage/perseverance kick lately, and this is GREAT! Thanks for sharing it.
Kari, wow i really needed to read this post! Thanks so much for posting it.
Have a wonderful Monday.:)
I like that a lot - Thanks!
I love that. Thank you!
I love Abe Lincoln and he is such an example. Thanks for reminding us to think about that on Presidents Day.
I really needed that today. I've been feeling like a frump and a failure lately. Maybe by the time I'm 51 I'll be something special, too. Only 15 years to go . . . ;) BTW, I miss you! I'm glad you are keeping up your blog so I can still see you once in a while. :)
I had no idea. That was interesting. Thanks for posting it :)
that was a good post, thanks for sharing. We miss you guys and hope you are all doing well.
Tell Kayla we miss our favorite babysiter-we needed one so bad the other day that Ken even said it might be worth it to drive to Utah and pick her up just to watch our kids.
miss you guys!
Wow, that's pretty powerful! I was recently struck by a quote that said not to look at it as failure but as the opportunity to start again correctly.
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