Never give up in life

 Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences  of  trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain strength, experience and  confidence   by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace.

 In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition  for  the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executives said,"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."  The group was called The Beatles.

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency, told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn  secretarial work or else get married."  She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer  after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son. You  ought to go back to drivin' a truck."  He went on to become the most popular singer in America named Elvis Presley.

 When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876,  it did not ring   off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making  a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it  felt  to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light  bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."

In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his  idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country.  They  all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years of rejections!  He  finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to  purchase the rights to his invention - an electrostatic paper-copying  process.  Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

In early 1970s, a young man from Haryana who used to watch the local cricket matches regularly, approached one of the teams for getting  himself  included in the team. After one match in which his perfomance was  not  very   good, the team kept him as a  BALL-BOY (one who brings the ball back when it goes out of the ground).  He   later happened to know as the "Haryana hurricane", who led India to lift the World Cup in 1983, ever won by India, giving the mighty Windies the first  ever blow from any other team. He is none other than KAPIL DEV, the world's highest wicket taker in  test  cricket

During early 19s, in a remote village in Kerala, a scheduled caste boy  who was unable to remit his school fees (though it was under a rupee, still  unaffordable by his father) was fired severely and kicked out out of  school. He later grew up to become the first citizen of the world's greatest democratic country, India, Mr. K.R Narayanan.