you have failed the test your job
application was rejected you were not
accepted by that university your boss
just fired you and you're sitting over
there and feeling terrible but just wait
a minute and listen when Abraham Lincoln
was just 7 he was harmless at the age of
9 he lost his mother at 23 he lost his
first election at 24 he declared
bankruptcy because the business had
tried to build failed and for the next 7
years he was paying back his debt at 26
his fiance passed away next year he was
seriously sick that almost for a year he
could not leave his bed throughout his
life he lost eight elections but then
ended up becoming the greatest president
of the United States I just don't
understand how would anyone give up
after knowing this but it ain't about
how hard you hit it's about how hard you
can get hit and keep moving forward how
much you can take and keep moving
forward this Court represents all of his
life Sylvester Stallone slept in the
streets cleaned the cells in the zoos
and film in porn dreaming to get some
roll the exact same story repeats with
everyone well Disney went bankrupt after
his first attempt to start a business
and even when he came out with his
famous idea of Mickey Mouse everyone the
thought that's nonsense no one is gonna
watch that so he was rejected again by
everyone not a good start for someone
who won 22 Oscars you have such a low
self-esteem because you think you're not
born with some great challenge imagine
you couldn't talk until the age of four
everyone would think that you're
mentally but then you end up
becoming the most famous physicist in
the world the real challenge is when
you're born in a village far from
civilization whose father is fascist but
then you end up becoming the Governor of
California the grievance is when you're
kicked out from your own company that
you have built from scratch that's
exactly what
happened to Steve Jobs after 10 years I
believe begged him to come back and lead
Apple again and you know what he said in
his most famous speech getting fired
from Apple is the greatest thing ever
happened to him so here is another
lesson for you sometimes life's gonna
hit you in the head with a brick don't
lose faith everyone can lie on that
couch and complain about how horrible
everything is how greedy people are how
dumb this generation is how things in
the past were easier how difficult it is
to get a job how corrupt is the system
how everyone is trying to put you down
and so on I mean look I don't really
know what problem you're going through
or how big it is but let me just tell
you a brutal truth right into your face
you've got two options you will either
sit there and cry about it or you will
move your eyes and keep trying to do
something about it these are literally
the only options in front of you as
Winston Churchill said success is going
from failure to failure without losing
your enthusiasm looking back at my life
I can't even counter the number of times
that I have failed and I perfectly
understand how horrible it feels so I'm
not selling you the idea that failing is
great and don't get me wrong I'm not
trying to compare myself to any of these
people that I have mentioned but what I
want to say is that these people inspire
me so let them inspire you as well
especially when you're going through
hardship or failure how dare you to give
up when you know that these people will
throw much more difficult times and yet
did not give up remember you do not fail
until you quit so keep trying
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