Success & Failure

“Success is by choice

Mediocrity is also by choice”

Facts you may not know but may surprise & even astound you! These are great men we speak of:

• Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk War as a captain & came out as a private.

  
  

• F. W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he 21, but his employer wouldn’t let him wait on the customers because he didn’t have enough sense.

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Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was too stupid to learn

anything.

Walt Disney was fired by his newspaper editor

because he had “no good ideas”.

The road to success is narrow & crude

That to failure is broad & smooth

It’s easy just to cry

When you fail to even try.

Trying & striving under pressure

Will ultimately yield you pleasure

But should you lack tenacity

You’ll not reach your destiny.

Where you’re heading always seem far & distant

The journey will not end in an instant

It calls for faith & persistence

When frustration crowd your existence.

Success is by choice

Mediocrity is also by choice

What you set out to achieve

Depends upon your own firm belief.

Paul Chong

A Chinese by Descent

An Australian by Consent