IN CASE YOU DID NOT SUCCEED RIGHT AWAY...

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 part of the human experience.

Whenever you feel a little discouraged, just remember that the following 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 others.  We must believe in ourselves.  Somewhere along the road, we will meet someone who sees greatness in us and expresses it.

AMEN!  This article was 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.

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.  With the help of God, know that it will happen.  Enough said! 

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!