September 28, 2011
Every successful person in the world has been through tough times and failure at some point in their life
-Albert Einstein was four years old before he spoke one word and seven years old before he could read.
-Sir Isaac Newton did poorly in school.
-Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him “As a composer, he is hopeless.”
-A magazine editor told Emily Dickinson she could not publish her own poems because they failed to
rhyme.
-Young Thomas Edison was told by his teachers that he was too stupid to learn anything.
-A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had “no good ideas.”
-Ted Turner was expelled from College.
-Michael Jordan was “cut” from the high school basketball team at the beginning of his sophomore year.
-As a young student, Martin Luther King, Jr. was told by a teacher that he would never be able to speak with enough emotion to inspire people to take action.
The point of this is obviously to never quit. If it was easy to be successful everyone would be doing it. Most great successful people that we look up to have failed at least once if not several times in their lifetime yet they persevered and became the great people we know of today. Never giving up ultimately makes people stronger and propels them forward to be amazing examples that people look up to. So tough times don’t last but tough people do.
