Inspirational Stories
(Short
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.
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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.
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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
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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?”
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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.”
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In the 1940s, another young inventor named
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
company, to purchase the rights to his invention an
electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became
Xerox Corporation we know today.
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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 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
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.
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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…!
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