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| | | Main : Success : PerseveranceJust Keep Planting (by: Adam Khan)
Paul Rokich is my hero. When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near an old copper smelter, and the sulfur dioxide that poured out of the refinery had made a desolate wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest.
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Keep On, Keeping On (by: Jim Donovan)
Colonel Sanders went to more than 1,000 places trying to sell his chicken recipe before he found an interested buyer. The fact that we can buy Kentucky Fried Chicken today attests to his perseverance. Thomas Edison tried almost 10,000 times before he succeeded in creating the electric light. If he had given up, you would be reading this in the dark!
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Know, There is a Way (by: John McIntosh and Rev. JoAnn (Ananda) Polito)
When darkness comes and fear fills your heart,
Know, there is a way.
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Learning to Get Back Up (by: Craig B. Larson)
Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother's womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body.
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Moso Bamboo Tree, The (by: Joel Weldon)
The moso is a bamboo plant that grows in China and the far east. After the moso is planted, no visible growth occurs for up to five years - event under ideal conditions!
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Mr. Washington (by: Les Brown)
One day in 11th grade, I went into a classroom to wait for a friend of mine. When I went into the room, the teacher, Mr. Washington, suddenly appeared and asked me to go to the board to write something, to work something out.
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Never Give Up! (by: Author Unknown)
Sir Winston Churchill took three years getting through eighth grade because he had trouble learning English. It seems ironic that years later Oxford University asked him to address its commencement exercises.
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Persistence (by: Glen Hopkins)
One of the keys to being successful in anything you do is persistence. Once you have determined exactly what it is you want to accomplish, you must take massive action on a consistent, persistent basis in order to succeed.
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Refusing to Accept Failure (by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R.)
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet straight up. He was knighted for his efforts.
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Shake It Off and Step Up (by: Author Unknown)
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule 'braying' - or - whatever mules do when they fall into wells.
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