Here are few stories of some personalities who never quit in their first attempt !!!

1. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 1000 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 1000-step process.”

2. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She 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 paralyzed 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 last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered.
Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic Gold Medals!!!

3. 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 round. Groups of guitars are on the way out.” The group was called The Beatles.

4. In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.” She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

5. 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 driving’ a truck.” He went on to become the most popular singer in America named Elvis Presley.

6. 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 use one of them?”

7. 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 seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

Moral:

Character cannot be developed in ease and comfort.Only through experiences of trial and suffering, one’s mental capacity can be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain strength and confidence in every experience where you really learn to handle fear and tension and learn to take failure as learning opportunity.You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel comes to shape through the hottest furnace. And even the precious gold is tested against fire.

We have no right to ask when suffering or sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?”
unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

Be like steel,not glass! Tests of life are to make us,not to break us!

Winner never quits! Quitter never wins!

Life’s good and stay alive all your life!

SOURCE:::input from a friend of mine…
Natarajan