A Winner is not one who NEVER FAILS, but one who NEVER QUITS

[jassy]

This one will charge you up for all your tomorrows, if today was
difficult.........


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.

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.

He is Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

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 told
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 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."

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?"

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, she contracted 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 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 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 : 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. 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!"



" Work like you don't need money.Love like you have never been hurt.Dance like no one is watching.And live like its heaven on the earth"

[Xx-Gangsta_Jatti-xX]

Originally Posted by jassy " Work like you don't need money.Love like you have never been hurt.Dance like no one is watching.And live like its heaven on the earth"

luv dis sayin

nd da rest iz niceeeeeeeee

[GarryLamba]

Superb post bro...... i had read the Wilma story in You Can Win tooo... a lil detailed version... m posting it here..

Wilma Rudolph was born into a poor home in Tennessee. At age four, she had double pneumonia wid scarlet fever, a deadly combination wich left her paralysed wid polio. She had to wear brace and the doc said she wud never put her foot on the earth. But her mother encouraged her; she told Wilma that God-given ability, persistence and faith she could also do anything she wanted. Wilma said, "I want to be the fastest woman on the track on this earth." At the age of nine, against the advice of the doctors, she removed the brace and took the first step the doctors had said she never would. At age of 13 she entered her first race and came way, way last. And then she entered her second, and third and fourth, and came way, way last until a day came when she came in first.

At the age of 15 she went to Tennessee State University where she met a coach named Ed Temple. She told him, "I wanna b the fastest woman on the track on this earth." Temple replied, "With you spirit nobody can stop u and besides, I will help you."

The day came when she was at the Olympics and at the Olympics u are matched with the best of the bebst. Wilma was matched against a woman named Jutta Heine who had never been beaten. The first evernt was 100-meter race. Wilma beat Jutta and won her first gold medal. Then in 200 meter race again won second gold medal again defeating Jutta. The third event was 400-meter relay and again she was racing against Jutta. In the relay, the fastest person always runs the last lap and they both anchored their teams. the first people ran and changeed the Baton easily. When it came to Wilma's turn, she dropped the batton. But Wilam saw Jutta shoot up at the other end; she picked the baton, ran like a machine, beat Jutta a third time and won her third gold medal.

It became history: That a paralytic woman became the fastest woman on this earth at the 1960 Olypics.

Source: You Can Win, Shiv Khera, page - 136