14 PEOPLE TO KEEP YOU GOING.

Below is a list of people you can learn from if the going is getting tougher on a daily basis. You need to know that tough time never last but tough people do.

1. Oprah was fired from one of her early anchor gigs, after being labelled “unfit for TV.” According to Wikipedia, "she was born into poverty."

2. Tim Ferriss had twenty-six publishing rejections for The 4-Hour Work week—which spent months on The New York Times Bestseller list.

3. Twilight author Stephenie Meyer had nine rejections from literary agents, and then…a $750,000 three-book deal.

4. Lady Gaga was dropped by Island Def Jam Records after only three months.

5. Project Runway winner Christian Siriano was rejected by the Fashion Institute of Technology. After winning Project Runway, his fashion line brought in $1.2 million in the first two years.

6. Abraham Lincoln had less than five years of formal education.

7. Marilyn Monroe was booted from 20th Century-Fox, after producers declared her “unattractive.”

8. Beethoven was almost completely deaf when he composed “The Ode To Joy.” He removed the legs from his piano and placed it on the floor, letting the vibrations resonate through his body.

9. Emily Dickinson had just a handful of poems published during her lifetime—out of over 1,800 completed works.

10. Louisa May Alcott was encouraged by her family to find work as a household servant. She wrote Little Women instead.

11. Verdi was rejected from a prestigious music conservatory in Milan because he “wasn’t talented enough.” He wrote twenty-eight operas, including La Traviata, Aida, and Othello.

12. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

13. A young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors, who said he had no talent.

14. One day a partially deaf four year old kid came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison.

Do you consider these people failures? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in the absence of them. But to the outside world, it appears as if luck smiles on them. All success stories are stories of great failures. The only difference is that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and keep moving. Successful people don't do great things; they only do small things in a great way.

As mentioned in Shiv Khera’s book, "You can win", Setbacks or failure are inevitable in life. A failure can act as a driving force and also teach us humility. In grief you will find courage and faith to overcome the setback. We need to learn to become victors, not victims.

Ask yourself after every setback: What did I learn from this experience? Only then will you be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

You need to read the full biography of these people to learn from the hurdles they crossed before becoming successful. You do read about their success stories but why not try to read about their failure stories as well.

Finally, I implore you to:
Keep going.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Till your change come.

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