Define a Winner ??????

hello friends..
so i am back with another good thing (i hope so :confused: ) ..
so read this.. i got it from one of my friend..
and i was thrilled... and i am sure u all will also.....



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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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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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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 America named Elvis
Presley.

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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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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 we know today.

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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!




thank u for reading..

intruder

Hmmm... That's pretty interesting. Are they all really true?

no, there are hotter furnaces.

very inspiring, i needed that.
Thanks

I believe I've seen this before... I find it very inspiring. It just goes to show persistance pays off.

*Looks at the other 1000 people who didn't make it for every one person who was a big success...* Eh, screw it.

Add to that the story about the casting director at a major Hollywood studio who took two hopeful young actors aside and dashed their hopes of stardom to pieces. He told one of them that he just couldn't act, and the other that his adams apple was too big and it made him unattractive. Their names? Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood.

that`s interesting to know intruder thanks for that i never knew any of it ty intruder