Here are some inspirational stories, take time to read! It's real!
By sharie16
@sharie16 (2212)
Philippines
November 1, 2008 5:09am CST
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives oft he 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 the most popular singer in America named 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 use 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 himhow it felt to fall so many times. 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 seven long years of rejections (!), he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company,to purchase the rights of his invention, an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.***
Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed teh metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13, she had developed 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, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.*****
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. A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS! In Life, remember that you pass this way only once! Let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best... have a blissful life!
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@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
3 Nov 08
YEah, they are all very inspiring and true ^_^ The only way to improve ourselves, is to keep learning and picking oursleves up.. Never admit or bow down to failure.. INstead keep challenging them till they bow down to us instead.. PLus, all success comes with experiences and setbacks.. Without all that, success is nothing but just a show ^_^
So in order to succeed in life, determination is very important.. It may not be a big thing in life, but as long as we have the desire, we can slowly build it up to something big as we grow in life ^_^ hehe
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
2 Nov 08
Frank Hebert submitted his novel to EVERY publisher and they all said it was too long and too confusing. Finally an assistant editor at Chilton (the car repair book publisher) took a chance with it. It went on to win multipul SF book awards and became a big deal in the science fiction writing. His book also started a major change in the way the science fiction books were considered, and "big" books became more the norm instead of the 120-170 page books.
The name of his book? Dune.
@sharie16 (2212)
• Philippines
12 Nov 08
thanks for sharing that story too...well we should always be motivated to pursue our dreams and believe that it will come true...it will just take the power to believe in our self and be determined by the love of our work...
have a nice day! God bless!
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@psyche49f (2502)
• Philippines
4 Jan 09
Yup, they're truly inspiring, a must read especially during our lowest moments when we just want to quit. It reminds us that quitters don't win, and winners never quit. Never, never, never say die....we always have to be optimistic and hopeful, instead of being pessimistic. Of course, that's better said than done; but these true stories will propel and guide us to pursue our goals, no matter what. Thanks for this wonderful sharing.
@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
I found a quote that I liked so much that I made it a certerpiece of my website:
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
url: http://chingsway.com/