NEVER GIVE UP... Never give up... Never. Give. Up. How important are your dreams to you? How many times are you willing to fail? How many Nos are you willing to face before you get a yes? The next time you think about giving up remember the examples of these famous triumphs, and remember to Never Give UP... Every great victory, comes after many small defeats... HENRY FORD failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded. BEETHOVEN handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him hopeless as a composer. COLONEL SANDERS had the construction of a new road put him out of business in 1967. He went to over 1,000 places trying to sell his chicken recipe before he found a buyer interested in his 11 herbs and spices. Seven years later, at the age of 75, Colonel Sanders sold his fried chicken company for a finger-lickin’ $15 million! WALT DISNEY was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. CHARLES DARWIN, father of the theory of evolution, gave up a medical career and was told by his father, “You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat catching.” In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, “I was considered by my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect. ALBERT EINSTEIN did not speak until he was four years old and didn’t read until he was seven. His teacher described him as “mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.” He was expelled and refused admittance to Zurich Polytechnic School. The University of Bern turned down his Ph.D. dissertation as being irrelevant and fanciful. The movie STAR WARS was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood before 20th-Century Fox finally produced it. It went on to be one of the largest grossing movies in film history. When NFL running back HERSCHEL WALKER was in junior high school, he wanted to play football, but the coach told him he was too small. He advised young Herschel to go out for track instead. Never one to give up, he ignored the coach’s advice and began an intensive training program to build himself up. Only a few years later, Herschel Walker won the Heisman trophy. After FED ASTAIRs first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said, “Can’t act! Slightly bald! Can dance a little!” Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home. The father of the sculptor RODIN [The Thinker Statue] said, “I have an idiot for a son.” Described as the worst pupil in the school, Rodin failed three times to secure admittance to the school of art. His uncle called him uneducable. BABE RUTH, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete of all time and famous for setting the home run record, also holds the record for strikeouts. When Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen first wrote Chicken Soup, it was turned down by one hundred and twenty-three publishers someone finally agreed to publish it. The major New York publishers said, “It is too nicey-nice” and “Nobody wants to read a book of short little stories.” Since that time more than 8 million copies of the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book have been sold. The series, which has grown to thirty-two titles, in thirty-one languages, has sold more than 500 million copies. In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired ELVIS PRESLEY after one performance. He told Presley, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere… son. You ought to go back to drivin’ a truck.” Elvis Presley went on to become the most popular singer in America. DR. SEUSS‘ first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, was rejected by twenty-seven publishers. The twenty-eighth publisher, Vanguard press, sold six million copies of the book. HOW MUCH DO YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS? MANY TIMES ARE YOU WILLING TO BE REJECTED to make them come true? Have the courage to believe in yourself, even when no-one else does. YOU HAVE ONE LIFE TO LIVE... LIVE BIG Gerald Rogers ( These stories and examples were shared in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul...)
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