What is your excuse for not succeeding?

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John Lennon was abandoned by his parents

Check out what all these great people had to deal with

1. John Lennon was abandoned by his parents.

2. The English poet John Milton was blind.

3. Beethoven was totally deaf when he wrote the Ninth. He never heard it himself, except in his head.

4. Alexander the Great was a hunchback.

5. Homer was thought to have been blind.

6. Handel was paralyzed on his right side when he composed his greatest masterwork.

7. Edison was deaf when he discovered the gramophone.

8. Helen Keller was blind, deaf and dumb.

9. Golda Meir had leukaemia for twelve years.

10. Confucius was an orphan.

Edison was deaf when he invented the gramophone

11.  JFK had a very painful back injury and still became president.

12.  Roosevelt's legs were paralysed when he was elected president.

13.  Stephen Hawking has motor neuron disease, which is incurable. When he was 21, he was told that he had a maximum of a year to live. He is now the most famous physicist since Einstein. His book A Brief History of Time has sold more than 10 million copies. He is totally paralysed and can only move two fingers which he uses to operate his voice computer.

14.  Christopher Reeve, who acted in the role of Superman, was paralysed from the neck down and he continued to amaze us. He collected millions of dollars in sponsor money for scientific research into his type of back problem.

15.  Fred Astaire was rejected at his first screen test in 1933. He received a letter with the comment that he could neither dance nor act. He had the document framed and hung above the fireplace of his expensive house in Hollywood.

Fred Astaire was told he couldn't dance

16.  Caruso's teacher said that Caruso had a terrible voice and could not sing.

17.  Darwin gave up his medical career and was reproached by his father for being a layabout.

18.  Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper publisher because of his 'lack of creativity'.

19.  Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four.

20.  Louis Pasteur was fifteenth in a class of 22 chemistry students.

Disney was fired for 'lack of creativity'

21. Newton was a poor student at primary school.

22. Tolstoy was expelled from school as being incompetent and unwilling.

23. Churchill had to do a year over at primary school.

24. Henry Ford went bankrupt five times.

25. And you? Do you believe you CAN despite .....?

Henry Ford went bankrupt 5 times

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