NEVER EVER GIVE UP!

>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?"

>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 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 as we know it 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 contracted 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 Wilma Rudolph, who was told she would

>never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

>The Moral of the above Stories:

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>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!