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Failure Vs Success PDF
Failure Vs Success PDF
Failure Vs Success PDF
Impossible
Dream!!!
Failures are the stepping stones to success!!!
A school teacher scolded a boy
for not paying attention to his
mathematics and for not being
h i d f b i
able to solve simple problems.
She told him that you would
not become anybody in life
not become anybody in life.
The boy was Albert Einstein
"A person who never made
a mistake never tried
a mistake
i k never tried
i d
anything new.""
anything new.
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
y g ,
would never be famous.
He is Amitabh Bachchan
"N
"No one can go
through life
without their
without their
share of knocks.
I am no different
from any other."
A small boy the fifth amongst seven
siblings of a poor father, was selling
newspapers in a small village to earn
p p g
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
he built crashed.
built crashed multiple times and he
was made a butt of ridicule. He is the
person to have scripted the Space
Odyssey of India singlehandedly.
He was Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
"A leader
A leader
should know
how to
how to manage
manage
f il
failure."
failure.""
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of
the Blue Book Modelling Agency told
modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker,
modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker
"You'd better learn secretarial work
or else get married." She went on.
She became Marilyn Monroe
"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made
"Th i li ht I id 'G d b d ' d
a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said,
'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."
When he invented the light bulb, he tried
he invented the light bulb he tried
over 2000 experiments before he got it to
work. A young reporter asked him how it
y
felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never
,
failed once. I invented the light bulb. It
just happened to be a 2000step process."
He was Thomas Edison
"Many of life's failures
are people who did
not realize how close
not realize how close
they were to success
y
when they gave up."
When he 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
g ,
who would ever want to see
one of them?"
He was Alexander Graham Bell
"When one door closes
When one door closes,
another opens; but we
often look so long and
so regretfully upon the
f ll h
closed door that we do
not see the one which
has opened for us."
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.
to purchase the rights to his invention
Haloid became Xerox Corporation
"Several times I decided to drop the idea completely. But each
time I returned to try again. I was thoroughly convinced that
the invention was too promising to be dormant."
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
b
brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it.
h h d b d d t d b t lk ith t 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,
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.
Wilma Rudolph went on to win three Olympic gold medals
"I ran and ran and ran every
day, and I acquired this sense
of determination, this sense
of spirit that I would never,
f i it th t I ld
never give up, no matter
what else happened."
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
“Life is very short and there's no time, for fussing and fighting
my friend. I have always thought that it's a crime, so I will ask
you once again: try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am
right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance
that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out.”
In 1954, Jimmy Denny,
manager of the Grand
Ole Opry fired a singer
Ole Opry, fired a singer
after one performance.
He told him, "You ain't
going nowhere son. You
i h Y
ought to go back to
driving a truck".
He went on to become Elvis Presley
"Adversity is sometimes
hard upon a man; but
p
for one man who can
stand prosperity, there
are a hundred that will
stand adversity."
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
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
h ll l k f
in the face. You must do the thing
you cannot do. And remember,
the finest steel gets strengthen
through the hottest furnace.
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go