POEM

 If— by Rudyard Kipling

BOOK

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

QUOTE

"Stand up for what is right, even if you're standing alone"

CAUSE

Education

PERSON

Leonard da Vinci

PHILOSOPHER

Socrates

SPORT

Baseball

FILM

Waiting For "Superman" by Davis Guggenheim

TV

The Wonder Years

MUSICIAN

Billy Joel

SONG

Feeling Good by Nina Simone

PLAY

Of Mice and Men

ARTIST

Salvador Dalí

HOBBY

Reading tech blogs

WEBSITE

The Verge

APP

Google Maps

PERSEVERANCE

He failed in business in '31. He was defeated for state legislator in '32. He tried another business in '33. It failed. His fiancee died in '35. He had a nervous breakdown in '36. In '43 he ran for congress and was defeated. He tried again in '48 and was defeated again. He tried running for the Senate in '55. He lost. The next year he ran for Vice President and lost. In '59 he ran for the Senate again and was defeated. In 1860, the man who signed his name A. Lincoln, was elected the 16th President of the United States. The difference between history's boldest accomplishments and its most staggering failures is often, simply, the diligent will to persevere.