NEVER GIVE UP !

A winner is not one who never fails...... 

But one who never quits!

At some point or the other in the various journeys, we embark on in our lives, we get to a part where we feel like giving up. Sometimes we give up before we even start and other times we give up just before we are about to make that huge break-through that we have been putting so much effort in to achieve.

Believe In Your Dreams
Don’t sell yourself short. In life there are going to be many people who will try to bring you down and tell you what you want to achieve is not possible. Don’t let anyone destroy your dreams.

 As Long As You live Anything Is Possible...
The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead. As long as you are alive... and healthy ....and free you have the choice to keep trying until you finally succeed.

Be Realistic
The chance of mastering something the first time you do it is almost non-existent. Everything takes time to learn and you will make mistakes. Learn from them.

I have compiled this catalogue of reasons why you should never give up and I hope that you will find it before you give up, so that it can inspire you to keep going!

In LIFE, remember that we pass this way only once!

These are some Real Life Stories... of real people who never gave up!!

A candidate for a news broadcasters post was rejected by officials since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous. 

He is Amitabh Bachchan. 

A small boy - the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. 

The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly - 

        Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. 

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. 

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. 

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 Elvis Presley. 

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 see 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."

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 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention -- an electrostatic paper-copying process. 

Haloid became Xerox Corporation. 

A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, 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, went on to win three Olympic gold medals. 

A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. 

The boy was Albert Einstein. 

Lance was diagnosed with serious cancer that had spread throughout his entire body. He had cancer cells the size of golf balls in his lungs. Despite all odds, he overcame cancer and set out to win the Tour de France 6 Consecutive years in a row.

That is Lance Armstrong

 Lastly but definitely not the least....Nelson Mandela..... He Campaigned for justice and freedom in his South Africa. Spent 20 years in jail for his opposition to apartheid. On release, he healed the wounds of apartheid by his magnanimous attitude toward his former political enemies.

The Moral of the above Stories: 

A character cannot be developed in ease and quiet comfort......Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened....... vision cleared.........ambition inspired and success achieved. 

We 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. 

Let The Haters Hate
There will always be haters. There will always be plenty of naysayers and people who try to tear us down. Don’t pay attention to them and don’t take what they say to heart. Let the haters hate and you keep believing in yourself.

You Deserve To Be Happy
Don’t ever let anybody tell you otherwise. You deserve to be happy and you deserve to have success. Keep that mindset and never give up until you reach your destination!

 Inspire Others
Be an inspiration to others by refusing to give up. Who knows what someone else can achieve because you never gave up and in turn inspired them not to give up.

You Are So Close
Often when you feel like you want to give up and you are about to give up you are so close to making a huge break-thru. .... at any given time we may be just a heartbeat away from success.

 "Failure is the pillar of success......They are our stepping stone!" 

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."