If you feel hopeless while achieving your goal and you need some motivation, read this. These are the people who don’t need to introduce themselves anymore because of their achievements in their lifetime. These people are particularly inspiring because they’ve gone through rejection and failures too, but that didn’t stop them from becoming who they are today.
- J. K. Rowling: Before she earned millions, she had to face a failed marriage, being almost entirely broke while raising a child on her own and going to school. When she finally finished writing Harry Potter she was rejected by several publishing companies before getting published. She even had to depend on welfare to survive but now, she’s just one of the richest women in the world.
- Winston Churchill: He failed his sixth grade because he struggled in school. He failed in politics for many years every time he ran for public office. At 62, he became the prime minister of the United Kingdom. He was twice elected as such and was also awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1953.
- Theodor Seuss Geisel: Publishers thought his books were not sellable, so they rejected him In fact, 27 of publishers dismissed his work. Now, his books are read by children all over the world. He wrote under the pen name, Dr. Seuss.
- Ludwig van Beethoven: He was very awkward on the violin. His teachers thought he was not brilliant enough, but it did not stop him there. He composed five of the best-loved symphonies of all time even when he was going deaf.
- Michael Jordan: He was kicked out of his high school basketball team. He missed more than 9,000 shots and lost 300 games. Now, he is known as the best basketball player of all time.
- Henry Ford: He found himself broke five times and his early businesses failed. He went on, however, to become the owner of what was considered to be the best motor companies in the world.
- Walt Disney: He was fired by his newspaper editor believing that he lacked imagination and had no good ideas. He went bankrupt and failed several businesses. He went on to become the owner of the Walt Disney Company (commonly known as Disney), a billion-dollar company profiting from the most famous merchandise, movies, and theme parks.
- Thomas Edison: His teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything. He had been fired from two of his jobs because he was unproductive. He failed 1,000 times with his inventions. Now, we are using his idea to light our homes.
- Charlie Chaplin: He was always rejected because his acting was nonsense and would supposedly never sell. Now he is an icon for having made the best pantomimic comedy movies.
- Vincent Van Gogh: He sold only one painting his whole life to a friend who paid him a not so considerable amount. He was never successful in life, sometimes even starved. He has since become one of the best-known artists.
So, if you feel you’re in an impossible, terrible situation right now, just look at their lives. It should be enough to tell you to go on and get that dream. It should be enough to push you to dream more and work more for it.
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