Great Moments in History to Lift You UP when You Want to give UP

Moments in history . . .

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

Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.

Beethoven's music teacher once said, "As a composer, he is hopeless."

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

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."

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

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

Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college.

Werner von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra.

Admiral Richard E. Byrd had retired from the Navy, as, "Unfit for service" until he flew over both poles.

Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out as a private.

Louisa May Alcott was told by an editor that she could never write anything that had popular appeal.

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.

To get stuck and have failures is a common occurrence.

Great things can happen with perseverance!

And – no one has to do it alone.

Teamwork makes the dream work.