A winner is NOT one who NEVER FAILS,
but one who NEVER QUITS! Read on..
A candidate for a news broadcasters
post was rejected by officials since
his voice was not fit for a news
broadcaster. He was also told that
with his obnoxiously long name, he
would never be famous.
He is Amitabh Bacchan.
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A small boy – the fifth amongst seven
siblings of a poor father, was selling
newspapers in a small village to earn
his living. He was not exceptionally
smart at school but was fascinated by
religion and rockets. The first rocket
he built crashed. A missile that he
built crashed multiple times and he
was made a butt of ridicule. He is the
person to have scripted the Space
Odyssey of India single-handedly-
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
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In 1962, four nervous young musicians
played their first record audition for
the executives of the Decca recording
Company. The executives were not
impressed. While turning down this
group of musicians, one executive
said, “We don’t like their sound.
Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
The group was called The Beatles.
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In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the
Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after
one performance. He told him, “You
ain’t goin’ nowhere….son. You ought
to go back to drivin’ a truck.” He
went on to become Elvis Presley.
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When Thomas Edison invented the light
bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments
before he got it to work. A young
reporter asked him how it felt to fail
so many times. He said, “I never
failed once. I invented the light
bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-
step process.”
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A little girl – the 20th of 22
children, was born prematurely and her
survival was doubtful. When she was 4
years old, she contracted double
pneumonia and scarlet fever, which
left her with a paralysed left leg. At
age 9, she removed the metal leg brace
she had been dependent on and began to
walk without it. By 13 she had
developed a rhythmic walk, which
doctors
said was a miracle. That same year she
decided to become a runner. She
entered a race and came in last. For
the next few years every race she
entered, she came in last. Everyone
told her to quit, but she kept on
running. One day she actually won a
race. And then another. From then on
she won every race she entered.
Eventually this little girl – Wilma
Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic
gold medals.
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A school teacher scolded a boy for not
paying attention to his mathematics
and for not being able to solve simple
problems. She told him that you would
not become anybody in life. The boy
was Albert Einstein.
And many such personalities …..
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The Moral of the above Stories:
Character cannot be developed in ease
and quiet, Only through experiences of
trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
inspired and success achieved. You
gain strength, experience and
confidence by every experience where
you really stop to look fear in the
face. You must do the thing you cannot
do.
“Failure is the pillar of
success!” “Pick battles big enough to
matter, small enough to win.”
