Need some inspiration?
Friday, 18. November 2005, 17:35:05
A winner is NOT one who NEVER FAILS, but one who NEVER QUITS! .
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. (India's biggest movie legend)
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.
(India's president)
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.
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency old modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
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.
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call,President Rutherford Hayes said,"That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?"
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 manytimes. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention -- an electrostatic paper-copying process.
Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, shecontracted 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 arunner. 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.
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.
The Moral of the above Stories:
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can thesoul 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.
And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. In LIFE, remember that you pass this way only once! let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best.
"Failure is the pillar of success!"
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
All power is within 'U'; 'U' can do anything and everything.
Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak.
Standup and express the divinity within 'U'.
-Swami Vivekananda.
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. (India's biggest movie legend)
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.
(India's president)
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.
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency old modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
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.
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call,President Rutherford Hayes said,"That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?"
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 manytimes. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention -- an electrostatic paper-copying process.
Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, shecontracted 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 arunner. 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.
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.
The Moral of the above Stories:
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can thesoul 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.
And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. In LIFE, remember that you pass this way only once! let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best.
"Failure is the pillar of success!"
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
All power is within 'U'; 'U' can do anything and everything.
Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak.
Standup and express the divinity within 'U'.
-Swami Vivekananda.
WIDGETIZE
_Grey_ # 20. November 2005, 22:19
Albert Einstein, aparently, just was too bored of school maths. He's said to be had an IQ of something near 190. This is not quite a good example.
Though, there have been lots and lots of people laughing at him, so Einstein could fit into this thingy, because he "didn't give up".
There is, however, doubt if Einstein was at all conscious of himself. He is said to have lived in his own world, a fantasy world, while exploring the secrets of ours.
Maybe I'm just a nerd but I though I ought say that
Effovex # 2. December 2005, 10:21
Anonymous # 15. September 2006, 19:49
Guess they both did then=)
Anonymous # 11. August 2008, 22:33
just take the meaning to heart
Sometimes the fight that you lost just primed you to win the bigger battle. Good luck to those struggling out there
It isn't easy but there is always some good out of any bad
Again Good luck
Anonymous # 24. August 2008, 06:30
This is some uplifting, spiritually expanding, goody gum drops bs! Sometimes when your really hitting the brick wall of life a pep talk is exactly whats needed.
You ever wake up and forget to see the pure poetry of everyday life. We all take things for granted. Hell, most of us are a bunch of whinning zombies looking for our next vice to make us feel alive again. Sometimes there is just a thread of faith left that makes you want to take one more breath and fight the good fight.
The true meaning of life is purely subjective- true. I'm just trying to compare notes and get a little inspiration or bs.
Anonymous # 12. September 2008, 00:18
wonderful
Anonymous # 3. December 2009, 12:51
u have a bright inspiation source,i liked it!!