1. Lost his job2. Got defeated for legislature3. Started business and failed4. Wife died of a fatal disease5. Experienced nervous breakdown1. Contested in election for speaker in legislature and lost 1. Tried for nomination in a political party and lost8. Applied for post of land officer and didn’t get it9. Contested for senate and lost10. Contested for vice president and lost

11. Again contested for senate and lostAND TWO YEARS LATER…..

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

GOT ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF AMERICA

FAILURE

Does not mean (X)

You are a failure You have not yet succeeded

You 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 (I )

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 (I )

WE CAN CHANGE / SUCCEED

RENOWNED MUSIC COMPOSER

DEAFBEETHOVEN

WELL KNOWN GREEK ORATOR

NERVOUS STAMMERERDEMOSTHENES

WHAT DID HE BECOME?WHAT WAS HE?NAME

WORLD FAMOUS SCIENTIST

ORDINARY PATENT CLERKALBERT EINSTEIN

PRESIDENT OF AMERICA

POOR FARMER’S SONABRAHAM LINCOLN

PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL

AVERAGE SCHOOL TEACHER

GOLDAMEIR

PRESIDENT OF AMERICA

SICK AND BOTH LEGS PARALYSED

FRANKLIN. D ROOSEVELT

GREATEST GREEK WRITER

BLINDHOMER

RENOWNED WRITERBLIND, DEAF AND DUMBHELEN KELLER

GREATEST INVENTORMATRICULATETHOMAS EDISON

WHAT DID HE BECOME?WHAT WAS HE/SHE?NAME

ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHAIN HOTEL OWNER IN THE WORLD

SIMPLE CLERKM.S. OBEROI

LARGEST SELLER OF WASHING POWDER (NIRMA BRAND, Rs 1,200 CRORES TURNOVER)

SON OF AN ORDINARY FARMER

K.K. PATEL

NOW SELLS RS. 5 CRORE WORTH SHINGAR BINDI PER YEAR

MATRICULATE WITH INITIAL INVESTMENT OF Rs 100

TOPIWALA

GOT 150 GOLD MEDALS IN DISC THROW, ETC.

POLIO STRIKEN (25 SURGERIES DONE)

MALATHI HOLLA

PERFORMED 45,000 SURGERIES FREE OF COST

2 HEART ATTACKS; CRIPPLED IN LOWER SIDE OF THE BODY; VOCAL CORDS REMOVED

SHARD KUMAR DEEKSHIT

FAMOUS SWIMMER, MENTIONED IN BOOK ‘SPECIAL PEOPLE’ BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY

BOTH LEGS POLIOC.N. JANAKI

WE CAN CHANGE / SUCCEED

INSTEAD OF BLAMING DARKNESS,INSTEAD OF BLAMING DARKNESS,LIGHT A CANDLE IF YOU CAN!LIGHT A CANDLE IF YOU CAN!

STOP BLAMING;STOP BLAMING;INSTEAD TAKE ACTIONINSTEAD TAKE ACTION

Generate enthusiasm

Operate to your potential

Destroy negative attitude

CHANGE CAN START WITH OURSELF

AND CAN BEGIN ONLY .FROM WITHIN