Failure. Bring it.

This is one of those days where I need to remind myself of some things. I need to remember that some of the very great success-stories in history began with very great failures. I need to remember that it's okay to keep plowing ahead when everything in my path is resistant. I just need a "win one for the Gipper" moment. So, here it is.


1.Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.

2.Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.

3.When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.

4.F.W.Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21. But his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he "Didn't have enough sense."

5.A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had "No good ideas"

6.Caruso's music teacher told him "You can't sing, you have no voice at all."

7.Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college.

8.Verner Von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra

. 9.Admiral Richard E. Byrd had been retired from the navy, as, "Unfit for service" Until he flew over both poles.

10.Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College

11.Abraham Lincoln entered The Black Hawk War as a captain and came out a private

12.Fred Waring was once rejected from high school chorus.

13.Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.


There. I feel better.