IN CASE YOU DID NOT SUCCEED
RIGHT AWAY…
There is a class of
flowering plants known as LATE BLOOMERS.
The following article by an unknown author demonstrates that this state
of being is not limited to flora.
Indeed, it is a human experience.
Whenever you feel a little discouraged, just remember what these people accomplished great things when everyone else looked at them as failures. So believe in yourself!
Albert Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak and 7 years old before he could read.
Isaac Newton performed poorly in grade school and was considered “unpromising.”
When Thomas Edison was a youngster, his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He was counseled to go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality. Can we say “electric light bulb?”
F. W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his boss would not permit him to wait on customers because he “didn't have enough sense to close a sale.”
A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he “lacked imagination and had no original ideas.”
Winston Churchill failed 6th grade and had to repeat it because he did not complete the tests required for promotion.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times, a major league record.
A person may make mistakes, but is not a failure until he or she starts blaming someone else. We must believe in ourselves, and somewhere along the road of life we will meet someone who sees greatness in us and lets us know it.
AMEN! This article is so inspirational that I feel
motivated to add to it…:
Henry
Ford went broke 5 times
before pioneering mass production and founding the Ford Motor Company.
R.
H. Macy started 7 failed
businesses before establishing Macy’s.
Soichiro
Hondo was turned down by Toyota
for an engineering job and went on to form one of the world’s most successful
car manufacturing companies.
Bill
Gates was a Harvard
drop-out who started a failed company called Traf-O-Data. He persevered, founded Microsoft and is one
of the wealthiest persons on the planet.
Harland
David Sanders, a.k.a. Colonel Sanders, had his famous secret
recipe rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it. The result: Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
ORVILLE and WILBUR
WRIGHT battled serious depression and illness before their famous ‘flight’ into
history.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was
busted from captain to private and started several failed businesses before
becoming president of the USA.
OPRAH WINFREY was
abused as a child and fired as a television reporter because she was “unfit for
T.V.”
At his first
audition, SIDNEY PORTIER was counseled by a casting director: “Why don’t you
stop wasting people’s time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?”
HARRISON FORD was
told by several movie execs that he didn’t have what it takes to become a star.
STEVEN SPIELBERG was
rejected 3 times by the Southern California School of Theater, Film and
Television.
Contemporary art
critics cruelly mocked MONET for his impressionist style of painting.
LUDWIG BEETHOVEN was
completely deaf when he composed 5 of the world’s greatest symphonies.
In addition to being
cut from his high school basketball team, MICHAEL JORDAN missed more than 9,000
shots during his career, lost almost 300 games and missed the winning game shot
26 times. His commentary: “I have failed
over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.”
YOU just might be a late bloomer – or perhaps YOU are a delayed bloomer. Just keep on cultivating yourself. It will happen. Enough said!
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