Believe you can succeed and you will

Success means many wonderful, positive things. Success means personal

prosperity: a fine home, vacations, travel, new things, financial security, giving your
children maximum advantages, etc Success means winning admiration,
leadership, being looked up to by people in your business and social life. Success
means freedom: freedom from worries, fears, frustrations, and failure. Success
means self-respect, continually finding more real happiness and satisfaction from life,
being able to do more for those who depend on you.
Success means winning!
Success-achievement is the goal of life!
Every human being wants success. Everybody wants the best this life can
deliver. Nobody enjoys crawling, living in mediocrity. No one likes feeling second-
class and feeling forced to go that way.
Some of the most practical success-building wisdom is found in that Biblical quotation
stating that faith can move mountains. Believe, really believe, that you can move
amountain and you can! Not many people believe that they can move
mountains. So, as a result, not many people do.
On some occasion youve probably heard some say something like, its nonsense to
think you can make a mountain, move away. Its simply impossible.
People who think this way have belief confused with wishful thinking. And true
enough, you cant wish away a mountain. You cant wish yourself into an executive
suite. Nor can you wish yourself into a five-bedroom, three-bath house or the high-
income brackets. You cant wish yourself into a position of leadership.
But you can move a mountain with belief. You can win success by believing you can
succeed. There is nothing neither magical nor mystical about the power of belief.
Belief works this way. Belief, the Im positive-I-can attitude, generates the power,
skill, and energy needed to do. When you believe I-can-do-it, the how-to-do-it
develops.
Everyday all over the world, young people start working in new jobs. Each of them
wishes that someday he could enjoy the success that goes by reaching the top. But
the majority of these young people simply dont have the belief that it takes the top
rungs. And they dont reach the top. Believing its impossible to climb high, they do
not discover the steps that lead to great heights. Their behavior remains that of the
average person.
But a small number of these young people really believe they will succeed. They
approach their work with the Im going-to-the-top attitude. And with substantial
belief they reach the top. Believing they will succeed and that its not impossible
these folks study and observe the behavior of senior executives. They learn how
successful people approach problems and make decisions. They observe the
attitudes of successful people.
Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe that they cant,
cannot. Belief triggers the power to do. Belief in great results is the driving force, the
power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries. Belief in success is behind
every successful business, church, and political organization. Belief in success is the
one basic, absolutely essential ingredient in successful people.
Believe, really believe, you can succeed and you will!
I will Persist Until I succeed
I was not delivered unto this World in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I
will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. The
slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not
given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my
goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind
the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.
I will be likened to the rain drop which washes away the mountain, the ant that
devours a tiger, the star which brightens the earth, and the slave who builds a
pyramid. I will build my castle one brick at a time for I know that small attempts,
repeated, will complete any undertaking. I will persist until I succeed.
I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and
phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure,
unworkable, hopeless, and retreat. I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind
should infect me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure.
I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. Each frown
I meet only prepares me for the smile to come. Each misfortune I encounter I will
carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck. I must have the night to appreciate the
day. I must fail often to succeed only once. I will persist until I succeed.
Never will I allow any day to end with a failure. Thus I will plant the seed of
tomorrows success and gain an insurmountable advance over those who cease their
labor at a prescribed time. When others cease their struggle, then mine will begin,
and my harvest will be full.
Nor will I allow yesterdays success to lull me into todays complacency, for this is the
greatest foundation of failure. I will forget the happenings of the day that is gone,
whether they were good or bad, and greet the new sun with confidence that this will
be the best day of my life.
So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist? For I know one of the
greatest principles of success if I persist long enough, I will win.
I will persist! I will win!
Because of what we are, of what we believe
For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For
this generation, the choice must be our own.
Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the changed character of our people
and on their faith.
In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty.
In a land rich in harvest, children must not be hungry.
In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die untended.
In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and
write.
How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one
another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery; others to
pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in
their own way.
We have discovered that every child who learns, and every man who finds work, and
every sick body that is made whole like a candle added to an altar brightens the
hope of all the faithful.
So let us reject any among us, who seek to reopen old wounds, and rekindle old
hatreds. They stand in the way of a seeking nation.
Let us join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our unity of interest
into a unity of purpose. To achieve change without hatred; not without difference of
opinion but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for
generations.
Under the covenant of justice, liberty and union, we have become a nation. And we
have kept our freedom.
It is the excitement of becoming always becoming, trying, probing, resting, and
trying again but always gaining.
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship;
that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more that it gives.
If we succeeded, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what
we are; not because of what we own, but rather because of what we believe.
For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of buildings and the rush of
our days pursuits, we are the believers in justice and liberty and union. And in our
own union we believe that every man must some day be free. And we believe in
ourselves.
For this is what our country is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed
bridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the
unplowed ground.
Is our world gone? We say farewell, is a new world coming? We welcome it and
we will bend it to the hopes of man.
But you must look within your own hearts to the old promises and to the old dreams.
They will lead you the best of all.