Many of the greats we admire had to face great criticism and setback! If they can make it, why can’t your children?
· Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.
· Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.
· When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
· F.W.Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21. But his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he "Didn't have enough sense."
· A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had "No good ideas"
· Caruso's music teacher told him "You can't sing, you have no voice at all."
· Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college.
· Verner Von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra.
· Admiral Richard E. Byrd had been retired from the navy, as, "Unfit for service" Until he flew over both poles.
· Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College
· Abraham Lincoln entered The Black Hawk War as a captain and came out a private
· Fred Waring was once rejected from high school chorus.
· Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.
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