Optimism, Hope and Motivation

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Optimism, Hope and Motivation

 

1. 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. "

 

2. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She 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 paralyzed 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 race. And then another. From then on she won every race she

entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again,

went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

 

3. 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 round. Groups of guitars are on the way out. " The group was

called The Beatles.

 

4. In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling

Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, " You'd better learn

secretarial work or else get married. " She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

 

5. 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 the most popular singer in America

named Elvis Presley.

 

6. 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 use one of them? "

 

7. 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 seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny

company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to

his invention an

electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know

today.

 

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. And remember, the finest steel

gets sent through the hottest furnace. And even the GOLD is tested against fire.

 

A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS!

 

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, " Why did this happen to

me? " unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes

our way.

 

Life's Good! Live it.

 

Have A Nice Day !!!!!!!!