FAILURE & OBSTACLES are the raw materials for SUCESS

Failure is the highway to success. "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate."

Obstacles are the challenges that should be overcome to succeed. "The greater the obstacle, the bigger the success."

A man had 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; This was Abraham Lincoln who was elected president of the United States at age 52.

A 65-year old man, with a beat-up car and a $100 check from Social Security, realized he had to do something. He remembered his mother's recipe and went out selling. He had to knock on more than a thousand doors before he got his first order. He was Colonel Sanders of KFC.

A young cartoonist 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. The boy was working out of a small mouse infested shed near the church. After seeing a small mouse, he was inspired. The boy was Walt Disney and that was the start of Mickey Mouse.

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.