AGE 7 Worked to support family after they were FORCED OUT
of their home.
AGE 9 Mother DIED.
AGE 22 FAILED in business.
AGE 23 DEFEATED for legislature and couldn’t get into law
School.
AGE 24 Declared BANKRUPT and spent 17 years paying off debt
owned to friends.
AGE 25 DEFEATED for legislature again.
AGE 26 While engaged to be married sweetheart DIED and
heart was broken.
AGE 27 Had a nervous BREAKDOWN and spent the next six
months in bed.
AGE 29 DEFEATED in becoming the speaker of the state
legislature.
AGE 31 DEFEATED in becoming elector.
AGE 34 DEFEATED for congress.
AGE 37 DEFEATED for congress again.
AGE 39 DEFEATED for congress yet again.
AGE 40 DEFEATED for the job of land officer in his home state.
AGE 45 DEFEATED for senate.
AGE 47 DEFEATED for vice-president -got less than 100 votes.
AGE 49 DEFEATED for senate again.
AGE 51 ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
My Great Concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ~ Abraham Lincoln
