Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years
old, and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried
about his mental ability.
Beethoven's music teacher said about him, "As a composer he is hopeless."
What if young Ludwig believed it?
When Thomas Edison was a young boy, his teachers said he was so stupid he
could never learn anything. He once said, "I remember I used to never be able
to get along at school. I was always at the foot of my class...my father
thought I was stupid, and I almost decided that I was a dunce." What if young
Thomas believed what they said about him?
When F. W. Woolworth was 21, he got a job in a store, but was not allowed to
wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense".
When the sculptor Auguste Rodin was young he had difficulty learning to read
and write. Today, we may say he had a learning disability, but his father said
of him, "I have an idiot for a son". His uncle agreed. "He's uneducatable", he
said. What if Rodin had doubted his ability?
Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor because he was thought to
have no "good ideas". Caruso was told by one music teacher, "You can't sing.
You have no voice at all." And an editor told Louisa May Alcott that she was
incapable of writing anything that would have popular appeal.
What if these people had listened and become discouraged? Where would our
world be without the music of Beethoven, the art of Rodin or the ideas of
Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison? As Oscar Levant has accurately stated,
"It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts."
You have great potential. When you believe in all you can be, rather than
all you cannot become, you will find your place on earth.
Believe in yourself!
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT OTHERS THINK OF YOU
ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS WHAT GOD THINKS OF U
AND
HE THINKS A WORLD ABOUT YOU
FOR HIM U ARE PRICELESS !
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