A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS!

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked himhow 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."_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and hersurvival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacteddouble 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 onand began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmicwalk,which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided tobecome a runner. She entered a race and came in last. Forthe next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyonetold 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 walkagain, went on to win three Olympic gold medals._________________________________________________________________________________________________
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first recordaudition for the executives of the Decca recording Company.The executives were not impressed. While turning down this groupof musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound.Groups of guitars are on the way out."The group was called "The Beatless".
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency,toldmodelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarialwork or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe._________________________________________________________________________________________________
In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singerafter 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 themost popular singer in America named Elvis Presley._________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876,After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayessaid,"That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use oneof them?"_________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson tookhis idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest inAmerica. They all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years ofrejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York,the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention anelectrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today._____________________________________________________________