It is a universal truism that every man wants success and a great aspiration for greatness on every side of his life endeavours. Success, they said, is contagious and is always having many friends, a sigh of relief and a sign of complishment, whenever one reflects on the days of his travails.

It comes with joy and happiness put together, which amounts to one having affluence and commanding influence all at the same time.
From the foregoing, the fear of failure has hindered thousands of people from daring and making adventures which are an encapsulate of success.

It is pertinent we girdle our lungs by removing the clog (fear) that hitherto slows our progress, having at the back of our minds that there are no failures, but only lessons; we only fail whenever we refuse to learn a lesson from the failure escapade.


It's high time men know that whenever they fail to plan, they plan to fail. Failure comes as a result of a life-long neglect of the nitty gritties of our lives at the expense of time. This ofcourse, has rendered several people as perpetual failures even in their fourties and early fifties.
No doubt, there is apparently joy in failure, because at any point in failure, we learn new ideas that will usher us some miles close to our destination.

Several chaps out there, out of their shallow understanding of what failure means to them, often than not, think suicide as the next available option. People should know that failure is the brainchild of success. Success cannot come if one has not passed through thirsty waters and turbulent times.

Moreso, rather than be on the negative, whenever failure stares at us, one should always be in the affirmative side, by making positive pronouncements about our current predicament; that way, success may come.

Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous icons of failure. As a young man from a poor background, Lincoln was faced with tremendous challenges in the cause of his political life. He contested eight good elections and lost out in all the eight attempts.

As a young merchant, he failed consecutively in every attempt to set up a business. Despite all the uneasiness, and nervous crisis that confronted him, he never bowed to failure; he rather considered all that to mean, "pathfinding travails" to his greatness.

He was a firm believer of the dictum that says "winners never quit and quiters never win". This was evident in his many times of trying, which finally saw him become not just the president of America, but the greatest president in the history America.


Lincoln was a champion and he never gave up. Here is a sketch of Lincoln's road to the White House:

* 1816- His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them.

* 1818- His mother died.

* 1831 Failed in business.

* 1832 Ran for state legislature, lost.

* 1832 Also lost his job , wanted to go to law school but couldn't get in.

*1833 Borrowed some money from a friend to begin a business and by the end of the year he was bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years of his life paying off this debt.

* 1834 Ran for state legislature again,won.

* 1835 Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was broken.

* 1836 Had a total nervous breakdown and was in bed for six months.

* 1838 Sought to become speaker of the state legislature, defeated.

* 1840 Sought to become elector,defeated.

* 1843 Ran for Congress, lost.

* 1846 Ran for Congress again, this time he won ,went to Washington and did a good job.

* 1848 Ran for re-election to Congress, lost.

* 1849 Sought the job of land officer in his home state, rejected.

* 1854 Ran for Senate of the United States, lost.

* 1856 Sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at his party's national convention - get less than 100 votes.

* 1858 Ran for U.S. Senate again, again he lost(probably his last failure).

After , What matters most is not how many times you fail, but that you never stop trying.enduring so many great failures in life the great Lincoln never quit and stretched a long road of failures to the destination of success, hurdling over obstacles coming now and then.

*1860 Elected president of the United States.
Now what I am trying to say that when one "failed to succeed " It bring about great landmark achievement, that will never be forgotten as long as the world still exist.

Pragmatically most stories in the Bible and Quran are stories about those who have failed many times and later succeed in the end. Moreso in our contemporary world success story of great men are all about how they turn their ordeal and challenges Into success.

Failure doesn't mean we are inferior or incapable. Failure is preparing us for greatness. so, when we are positive about failure at the end we achieve greatness that humanity will always remember.

Great And Awe Inspiring. Thanks Man

So true.
I never knew Abraham Lichon failed that much.
But anyways he failed forward.
Thanks for sharing.
That pictures tells a lot, people will mock you when you begin something and fail, but when you hit success they begin to ask for a share.
And if you no give them, they go begin saying sh*t.