Retrato de un perseverante

History says that this man failed in business and went bankrupt in 1831. He was defeated for the Legislature of 1832. His fiancée died in 1835. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836. He was defeated in the 1836 elections and in the parliamentary elections of 1843, 1846, 1848 and 1855. He did not succeed in his aspiration to the Vice Presidency in 1856, and in 1858 he was defeated in the elections for the Senate.

This stubborn man was Abraham Lincoln, elected president of the United States in 1860.

The lesson is very simple: it only fails when you stop trying.