0 Attitude !!

1.   Lost his job

2.   Got defeated for legislature

3.   Started business and failed

4.   Wife died of a fatal disease

5.   Experienced nervous breakdown

6.   Contested in election for speaker in legislature & lost           

7.  Tried for nomination in a political party and lost

8.   Applied for post of land officer and didn’t get it

9.   Contested for senate and lost

10. Contested for vice president and lost

11. Again contested for senate and lost

AND TWO YEARS LATER…..

GOT ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF AMERICA

ABRAHAM  LINCOLN