TOP TEN FAILURES OF ALL TIME

" We never give up. Our bodies are gradually dying, but we ourselves are being made stronger each day."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16

1. The engineer who neglected to design a reverse gear in the first car he manufactured. ( Henry Ford)
2. The group turned down by by Decca Records because "guitrs are on their way out." ( The Beatles)
3. The illustrator told by his newspaper editor to pursue another line of work. ( Walt Disney)
4. The skinny kid who hated the way he looked and was always being beat up by bullies. (Charles Atlas)
5. The seriously ill, deeply in debt composer who in desperation wrote an oratorio in a few hours. ( George Frederick)
6. The obese, bald, deformed eccentric who became a reclusive thinker. ( Socrates)
7. The orchestra conductor-composer who made his greatest contribution after becoming deaf.
( Ludwig von Beethoven)
8. The politician who lost his first seven elections. ( Abraham Lincoln)
9. The boy everyone thought was mute because his stutter was so bad he never spoke until he was teenager. ( James Earl Jones)
10. The woman born deaf and blind who became a great writer and philanthropist, and once said, " I thank God for my handicaps." ( Helen Keller)