Famous people who succeeded despite failure

Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhiji is an average student who passed his matriculation exam with difficulty. After completing law, he failed at establishing his practice and he did a part-time job as a school teacher.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein didn’t speak till he is four and didn’t read until he is seven.His parents thought that he is sub-normal. His teacher said that he is mentally slow. He was expelled from school and failed in the entrance exam to the Polytechnic Institute. But he turned out to win a Nobel Prize.

Thomas Alva Edison

He failed nearly 10,000 times before inventing the Light Bulb. When he was asked “How did it feel to fail 10,000 times”. He replied that “I didn’t fail. I found 10,000 ways which won’t work. Every failure is another step forward”.

Amitabh Bachchan

Before entering the film industry, he applied for an announcer’s job with All India Radio. But was rejected as his voice was deemed not suitable.

JK Rowling

The author of Harry Potter wrote her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on an old type writer after she got separated from her husband. It was rejected by 12 publishers. But after one year, Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury accepted it with the advice to take a job because there was no money in Children’s Books.

Karoly Takacs

He is a Hungarian Shooter who lost is shooting arm in an explosion. He didn’t give up. He taught himself to shoot with his left hand and went onto win two consecutive Olympic Gold Medals.

Walt Disney

He was the man who gave us the Mickey, and the beautiful Disneyland. But he was fired by a newspaper saying that he lacked imagination. He went bankrupt several times before he built Disney World.

Michael Jordan

He is a former professional Basketball player, was cut from his High School Basketball team. He once quoted

           “I’ve failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeeded.”

Other Famous Failures who succeeded

Abraham Lincoln, Socrates, the Beatles, Richard Branson, Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Van Beethoven, Helen Keller, Marilyn Monroe and so on.

They all have one thing in common Rising from the Failure.

Remember:

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat-Napoleon Hill

So, always make sure that you are there to let it in.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly-Robert F. Kennedy

Our greatest gory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall-Confucius

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;but great minds rise above them-Washington Irving

Quitters don’t Win, Winners don’t Quit.

Think positive, act positive and achieve positive results.

Failure comes before success even in the dictionary.

Success won’t come without failure.Failure is always part of success.It’s reality.If you take steps to improve yourself everyday you will achieve success in no time.

Nice sharing!

Nice sharing!