Are you going to give up?

General Douglas MacArthur was denied
admission to the Military Academy at
West Point, not once but twice. When he
tried for the third time, he was accepted
and marched right into our history books.
Basketball superstar, Michael Jordan, was
cut from his high school basketball team.
Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.
He became England ’s Prime Minister at
the age of 62, after a lifetime of defeats
and new beginnings. His greatest
contribution came when he was a senior
citizen.
Albert Einstein did not speak until he was
four years old and didn ’t learn how to
read until he was seven.
His teacher described him as “mentally
slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his
foolish dreams. ” He was expelled and
was refused admittance to the Zurich
Polytechnic School in Switzerland.
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of
the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told
modeling hopeful Norman Jean Baker
(Marilyn Monroe), “You’d better learn
secretarial work or else get married.”
An executive from Decca Records turned
down a recording contract with an
English rock band called the Beatles and
said, “We don’t like their sound. Guitar
groups are on their way out.”
When Alexander Graham Bell invented
the telephone in 1876, it didn ’t ring off
the hook with calls from potential
backers. President Rutherford Hayes said,
“ It’s an amazing invention, but who
would ever want to see one of them?”
When Thomas Edison invented the light
bulb, he tried over two thousand
experiments before he got it to work. A
young reporter asked him how it felt to
fail so many times. Edison replied, “I
never failed once. I invented the light
bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step
process. ”
After years of progressive hearing loss,
by age 46 German composer Ludwig van
Beethoven had become completely deaf.
Nevertheless, he wrote his greatest
music, including three symphonies,
during his later years.
Therefore, we must never think that our
time is up. There ’s always something
new to learn while we’re here.
Maybe, none of these people had the
faith we do, but yet, they still made
history.
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