“It always seems impossible until It’s done”
–Nelson Mandela
Finding true success is the craving all of us residing over this beautiful planet. It doesn’t make any difference whether the concerned person is a kid, youth or the old aged. At every single phase of our life, it is our inbuilt desire to find lasting success and continue forward consistency towards more massive success.
The mentality of competing with one another can frequently be noticed at any of the places like schools, universities, coaching, work fields, office and so on. As a comparison with our efforts towards the attempts to get achievement, we often expect much more and want success to knock our door very soon.
There stand a few such examples all over the world. Most of the iconic personalities have confronted serious failures in their life’s struggle. However, they continue on their ways to success and finally achieve success in their field of expertise. Here we will know about some famous personality who achieved success in their life :
★ Albert Einstein:
Albert Einstein is a notable researcher and extraordinary personality known by all of us all over the world because of his incredible creations and contributions towards science. During childhood, he experienced constant disappointments. He was not even ready to talk smoothly till the age of nine following which he was expelled from the school. Besides, his admission to Zurich Polytechnic School was additionally not thought of. But, leading to the ways of success consistently, he proved himself as a great one in the Ocean of science and technology. He won the nobel prize for physics in 1921.
★ Oprah Winfrey:
Oprah Winfrey, One of the most powerful women in America. She has had to overcome many obstacles throughout her life. Growing up in a broken home, Winfrey lived in poverty and was sexually harassed by male family members for years. However, when she moved in with her father, she found a way to overcome this trauma and become an Honors student with a full free scholarship.
Today, she is the founder and CEO of Harpo productions, a multimedia production company as well as a top rated creator and philanthropist.
★ Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani:
The story of Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of reliance is a genuine poverty to riches story. He was born in a poor family. He moved to Yemen at 16 years old to work at a petrol pump. He returned to India in 1958 and began his own textile business. Working around here, he got good marketing knowledge. After his business ended, he launched reliance corporation in 1996 Which is today known as the reliance industries. There is also a scholarship by his name, that is Dhirubhai Ambani scholarship.
★ Thomas Edison:
Thomas Edison was the best scientist of his time and the inventor of the bulb. If we look at Thomas Edison’s education, he was a mentally unstable child and because of this, he had to drop out of school. However, he was a hard worker and never gave up on his dream and ensured that his hard work made his story inspirational. He sold fruit and newspapers at the age of 12. He continued to work on various inventions and after inventing the Telegraph, he opened a lab in New York. Before inventing the light bulb, he failed thousands of times but continued to try and finally invented the bulb.
★Michael Jordan:
Michael Jordan is one of the most famous basketball players in world history. He was a short-height boy early in childhood because of which he frequently got rejected during the selection round. After being grown up and beginning to play like a basketball player, he even failed to hit over nine thousand shots and lost more than 300 games multiple times. He got disappointed a ton yet this dedication and consistency paved his way towards success.
★ Vincent Van Gogh:
This popular personality has been known as one of the best painters and artists in world history. However, due to continuous failure and misfortune Such as mental sickness and improper bonding in the relationship forced him to commit suicide at the early age of 37. During his whole life, this person sold just a single painting which recognised him in the world of arts and paintings which is alive to date. One of his famous paintings is “ The starry night”.
★ Colonel Harber:
Colonel Harber Sanders is widely known for his creation of Kentucky Fried Chicken today. However, people don’t know the struggle he went through to make this happen. He continuously faced rejection in his life. His Father died while he was only 6 years old. After that he kicked off from school and began working all day. He started selling his chicken fry at a service station at the age of 40. As he began developing, he had a shootout with his rival. He started a motel, after four years which got shut again because of world war-2. He attempted to establish his restaurant after that and was rejected thousands of times. After facing lots of failures, he grew KFC at Such a place that he sold it for 2 million dollars. After facing so many rejection in his life, he didn’t give up and the world knows him as the face of KFC today.
★ Bill Gates:
It was important for Bill Gates to learn from failure instead of celebrating the joy of success. This great businessman who made Microsoft the largest software company was a Harvard dropout. Furthermore, he is also known for this self-owned business called Traf-O-Data which is one of the biggest failures in history. Bill Gates’ total investment vanished and unfortunately even his studies could not be completed. But his strong desire and passion for activities based on computer programming led him to establish the largest software company with the brand name “Microsoft”.
★ Steve jobs:
Steve Jobs is known as an iconic personality in creating Apple as the biggest company. However, It’s shocking to learn that this $2 billion company with more than 4000 employees was founded with just two people in a garage. Also note that this great founder was dismissed and fired from the company where he started his career. Furthermore, knowing his potential and abilities, Steve Jobs continued towards establishing the greatest company known as “Apple”.
★Stephen Hawking:
Stephen Hawking is one of the most precious gems of the world of physics, ahead of his time. The disability caused by unsteady legs and being diagnosed with a serious disease did not stop hawking from becoming the world’s most renowned scientists. Even his survival was a miracle to this world, but surprisingly he lived to be 76 years old.
Success always looks ahead of the silly excuses and stays ahead of created misconceptions. Success is the result of determination and vital focus while moving forward on the working path.
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Anamika Ghosh Shreya
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Content writing department
YSSE