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Never give up

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 actua! lly 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!

Random Thoughts

We love ourselves even after doing many mistakes. Then how can we hate       others for their one mistake. Think before you hate someone or hate         yourself.                                                                                                                                              Swimming along the flow is effortless but swimming against it needs          effort. Don't go the way life takes you, but take life the way you want to  go. Dare to be different.                                                                                                                                The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don't have to      remember what you said. Think about it. There is only ONE truth.                                                                                                                  A beautiful saying: If your eyes are positive you would like all the        people in the world. But if your tongue is positive all the people in the    world like you.                                                                                                                                          Life is about the art of drawing without an eraser, so be careful while      taking decisions about the most valuable pages of your life.                                                                                            A nice thought: I met money and said why everyone runs behind you, you are  just a piece of paper. Money smiled and said of-course I am just a piece    of paper, but I haven't seen a dustbin yet in my whole life.                                                                                            Life is like a coin. Pleasure and Pain are the two sides. Only one side is  visible at a time. But remember other side is also waiting for it's turn.                                                                                If you like someone, show it. It will be sweeter than telling. But if you  don't like someone. Just tell it. It will be less painful than showing it.                                                                              A very true but strange quote: Love doesn't start in morning & end in        evening. It starts when you don't need it & ends when you need it most.                                                                                  What's greater than mom's love? Which pillow is better than a lover's lap?    Which company's better than friends? There are some things in life with no  substitutes. Love them forever.                                                                                                                          Tragedy of moon: So simple but so attractive. So enlightening but so cool.  So moving but so still. So quiet but so popular. So romantic but still      single.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A girl loved a boy so much. One day she proposed to him. But he refused.    Still she was not sad. Her friends asked her, didn't you feel bad? She        said, why should I feel bad? I lost the one who never loved me. But he      lost the one who truly loved him.