consider this

you've failed many times, although you may not remember.

consider this:

• Socrates was called, "an immoral corrupter of youth"
• Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his compositions instead of improving his technique. his teacher called him hopeless as a composer.
• Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Walt Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.
• Thomas Edison's teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything.
• Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn't 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.
• Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 in chemistry.
• Isaac Newton did very poorly in grade school.
• Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.
• Babe Ruth, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete of all time and famous for setting the home run record, also holds the record for strikeouts.
• Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He did not become prime minister of England until he was 62, and then only after a lifetime of setbacks. His greatest contributions came when he was a "senior citizen"

don't worry about failure, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

xoxoxo
deedee


(adapted from: Consider this by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen)