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Alphabetical Listing of Persistent People Overcoming Obstacles Douglas Bader, British Air Force Pilot: He had 2 artificial legs, and during World War II was captured 3 times by the Germans and escaped 3 times. Beatles, musicians: they were turned down by Decca Recording Company in 1962. Alexander Bell called President Hayes to give him a demonstration of a phone. Hayes said, “That’s an amazing invention, but who would want it?” Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: He was completely deaf by the age of 46, yet wrote his greatest music after becoming deaf. Bill Bradley, U.S. Senator and New York Knicks basketball star: He practiced relentlessly. He had 5 spots on the court from which he would shoot 25 balls. If he didn't get 22 out of 25, he would start again. Pablo Casals, one of world's greatest cellist: When asked at age 95 why he still was practicing 6 hours a day, he said, "because I think I'm making progress." Julia Child, chef: Julia and 2 partners worked 5 years to create a cookbook. Publishers rejected it. They worked for another year, and again it was rejected. They worked again, found a new publisher, and Mastering the Art of French Cooking has sold over a million copies. Tom Dempsy, place kicker in the National Football League: He was born without toes on his right foot. In fact, he kicked one of the longest field goals, 63 yards, in NFL history, even though his kicking foot was half the size of his other one. Thomas Edison, inventor: His mom pulled him out of school because his Port Huron, Michigan, teachers complained he was too slow. She home-schooled him. By the age of 10, he set up his own chemistry lab. Eventually he created 1300 inventions.. To create the light bulb he tried over 2,000 experiments. When asked how it felt to have failed so many times, he said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process.” Jim Eisenrich, professional baseball payer: He has Tourette's syndrome. Malcolm Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine: He failed to make the staff of Princeton's school newspaper. Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist & author: He has Lou Gehrig's disease Milton Hershey
Edmund Hillary: failed in his 1952 attempt to climb Mt. Everest (29,000 feet). Upon his defeat, he made a speech & said he would conquer Mt. Everest next time - and he did. He became the first man to climb Mt. Everest. Rafer Johnson, decathlon champion: He was born with a club foot. Michael Jordan: Was cut from his high school basketball team when he was a sophomore Abraham Lincoln: he had entered the
Blackhawk War as a captain, yet was demoted to private by the end of the
war. General Douglas MacArthur: He was turned down from West Point not once, but twice. He reapplied a third time , succeeded & has marched to power and fame. Carson McCullers, author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: She suffered 3 strokes before the age of 29. she suffered through her husband's suicide. She endured constant pain. Yet, she wrote one page a day, having become a famous author. John Milton, author of Paradise Lost: He was blind. In 1944 Marilyn Monroe was told by the director of Blue Book Modeling Agency: “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.” Itzhak Perlman, world-class violinist: He was paralyzed from the waist down. Wilma Rudolph, winner of 3 Olympic gold medals: She was the 20th of 22 children and born prematurely. Survival was iffy. At age 4 she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever at age 9 she removed a metal brace on her leg she had worn all her life and learned to walk; doctors said it was a miracle She eventually entered races and lost every one. eventually, however, she became an Olympic gold medal winner. Hershell Walker, winner of the Heisman trophy: He had been told in junior high that he was too small to play football. without any encouragement or support, he went into training and built himself up. Sam Walton: Was told by his mentor, J.C. Penny, "You don't have a future in retail." Heather Whitestone, 1994 Miss America: She is deaf. Read more examples of true hero stories at http://yourtruehero.org/ Please email me further examples for this page.
Thanks, Louise Walkup
The will is free;
We will see when we are grown
O beautiful for heroes proved To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the
momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow
self. The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Thoreau :Heroes
create circumstances; circumstances create heroes. Chinese Proverb Necessity makes heroes of us all. Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984) :Troubled times produce heroes. Chinese proverb :Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They re just braver five minutes longer. : Ronald Reagan, Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. W. Hegel And in that time . There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes. Max Lerner
Aim at nothing and you'll succeed. -- Anonymous The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. --B. C. Forbes It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein It is only
as we develop others that we permanently succeed. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. -- Helen Hayes The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. --Theodore Roosevelt There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." --Carrie Fisher Don't take
anyone else's definition of success as your own. --Jacqueline Briskin Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. --Coco Chan. Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. --Peter Drucker.
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information taken from St. Patrick Church Bulletin 12/5/2000
7 Steps to Success for students with learning disabilities (written by FYE student 2000)
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