Poems
I thought I had posted these... but can’t find them through the search engines or gmail search..... Two hokey-yet-inspirational poems I was given years ago that are now hanging in my office.
If you sometimes
get discouraged
consider this fellow:
He dropped out
of grade school
Ran a country store.
Went broke.
Took 15 years
to pay off his bills.
Took a wife.
Unhappy marriage.
Ran for House
Lost twice.
Ran for Senate
Lost twice.
Delivered a speech
that became a classic,
Audience indifferent.
Attacked daily
by the press
and despised by
half the country.
Despite all this,
Imagine
How many people
all over the world
Have been
inspired
by this awkward,
rumpled,
brooding man
Who signed his name,
simply:
“A Lincoln”
Don’t Be Afraid To Fall
You’ve failed many times,
although you may not remember.
You fell down the first time
you tried to walk.
You almost drowned the first time
you tried to swim, didn’t you?
Did you hit the ball the first time
you swung a bat?
Heavy hitters,
the ones who hit the most home runs,
also strike out a lot.
R. H. Macy failed seven times
before his store in New York
caught on.
English novelist John Creasy got
753 rejection slips before he published
564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out
1,330 times,
but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don’t worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss
when you don’t even try.
If you sometimes
get discouraged
consider this fellow:
He dropped out
of grade school
Ran a country store.
Went broke.
Took 15 years
to pay off his bills.
Took a wife.
Unhappy marriage.
Ran for House
Lost twice.
Ran for Senate
Lost twice.
Delivered a speech
that became a classic,
Audience indifferent.
Attacked daily
by the press
and despised by
half the country.
Despite all this,
Imagine
How many people
all over the world
Have been
inspired
by this awkward,
rumpled,
brooding man
Who signed his name,
simply:
“A Lincoln”
Don’t Be Afraid To Fall
You’ve failed many times,
although you may not remember.
You fell down the first time
you tried to walk.
You almost drowned the first time
you tried to swim, didn’t you?
Did you hit the ball the first time
you swung a bat?
Heavy hitters,
the ones who hit the most home runs,
also strike out a lot.
R. H. Macy failed seven times
before his store in New York
caught on.
English novelist John Creasy got
753 rejection slips before he published
564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out
1,330 times,
but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don’t worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss
when you don’t even try.