15 famous people who failed before they succeeded

Natalie Williams

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” Elbert Hubbard

Some of the most successful people in the world come from backgrounds of poverty, struggle, rejection and failure. Despite their challenges they never gave up and with a little grit, resilience, and persistence they embraced failure and continued to make their dreams come true.
I hope that this post can motivate others to accept failure as merely a chance to learn and to find the strength to never give up.

---

1. Albert Einstein – Could not speak until he was 4 and couldn’t read until he was 7, both his parents and teachers thought he was mentally handicapped.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” – Albert Einstein

1. Walt Disney – Being fired from his job in Kansas City Star paper because…

View original post 795 more words