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Words Have Healing Powers

Do you want to achieve success and happiness? What is keeping you from reaching at your full potential? Do you know that the best success stories often begin with failure? Some of the world's most successful people have failed - sometimes more than once. Some of highly successful people, from movie stars to scientists, experienced massive failure before they found fame and fortune.

• Winston Churchill was estranged from his political party.
• Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything."
• Oprah Winfrey was fired from her first television job.
• Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because (according to the editor) he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
• As a child, Albert Einstein had some difficulty communicating and learning in a traditional manner.
• J.K. Rowling was a single mom living off welfare when she began writing the first "Harry Potter" novel.
• Charles Darwin was considered an average student.
• After Harrison Ford's first small movie role, an executive told him he'd never succeed in the movie business.
• Dr. Seuss, had his first book rejected by 27 different publishers.
• While developing his vacuum, Sir James Dyson went through 5,126 failed prototypes and his savings over 15 years.
• Before launching Microsoft, Bill Gates was a Harvard University dropout.
• After Elvis Presley's very first performance, manager Jimmy Denny said, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."
• When The Beatles first auditioned for a recording compact in 1962, Decca Records rejected them. The band members recall being told "we don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
• The mastermind behind Apple, Steve Jobs dropped out of Oregon's Reed College after one semester. Steve Jobs was also kicked out of the company he founded.

Every person faces challenges in his life. Reading quotes from successful people, is like you are looking into their thoughts and mind. Get to know their fears, weaknesses, strengths, passions and drives. To achieve success you have to be somebody, you have to look at something greater than you. You need to know how successful people conquer their fears, remove their doubts and achieve greatness. You can share their secret by reading them. Does not matter what are you feeling or going through right now - you can come out strong and get the answers from here.

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All old sayings have something in them. There is an English proverb, that states:

"Proverbs are the children of experience."

Often metaphorical, popularly known and repeated short phrases are proverbs. A proverb possibly is originated in a result of specific event experienced by a person in a specific region under specific circumstances. The same proverb may have different meaning in another region or country. Read the same proverb again and again and you will feel it containing more than one meaning. Proverbs are something to think upon. These should not be taken as something to act upon. Proverbs are organized by their origin. However, same proverb may belong to multiple regions. Enjoy interesting proverbs and share the best proverbs.

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