There are 6 billion people sharing our world, all heading to the same destination- Greatness. But the road leading to Grandeur and splendor is more hostile than the fiercest blizzard or the strongest sandstorm. It is filled with hardships and troubles all the way. And the very few who actually reach greatness, are the ones who move on in spite of the hardships; and the ones who failed, are the ones who turned back.
Every one of us has the desire to reach greatness burning furiously inside of us and yet the slightest drizzle of misfortune and failure dampens our spirits.When problems seem insurmountable, quitting seems to be the easiest solution. It applies for all aspects of life. We turn back instead of learning from our failure and moving on. We quit when we have the opportunity to try again. And therefore we lose when we could have WON.
Failing is inevitable if you want success. Failing does not make us failures but quitting does. Most of us fail not because of the absense of talent and knowledge but because we quit. Success is achieved by persistence and resistence. Always Persist to succeed and resist to quit.
Every great success story is also a great story of failure. Let me share 2 such stories:
-There was a man who failed in business at the age of 21 ; Was defeated in a legislative election at 22 ; failed again in business at 24; lost the love of his life at 26 ; had a nervous breakdown at 27; lost a congressional election at age 34 ; lost a senatorial election at 45; failed to become the vice president at 47; lost again at the senatorial election at 49 and was finally elected as one of the greatest presidents of the united states at the age of 52. This man was Abraham Lincoln.
Do you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end. How many of us would have quit if we were presented with his failures and hardships?
Another story i want to share with you is of Colonel Sanders's.
At the age of 65, with a beat-up car and a 100$ check from Social security, he realized he had to do something. He remembered his mother's recipe and went out selling. It is estimated that he had knocked more than a thousand doors before he got his first order. And today it has become one of the most successful food franchises in the world- KFC.
How many of us quit after 3tries, 10 tries, a hundred tries and then say we tried as hard as we could?
Remember- YOU HAVEN'T TRIED AS HARD AS YOU CAN IF YOU HAVEN'T SUCCEEDED.
SUCCESS IS NOT MEASURED BY HOW HIGH WE BOUNCE UP IN LIFE, BUT BY HOW MANY TIMES WE BOUNCE BACK WHEN WE FALL DOWN.
It is your persistence to succeed and resistance to quit that gets you to great heights.
REMEMBER DONT GIVE UP ANYTHING OTHER THAN GIVING UP!
So the next time you feel like quitting, take a moment, think to yourself- Do you want to reach greatness or do you want to turn back? Do you want to be in the elite group of winners or in the billions of failures? Its Your call.
