Success doesn’t come on a silver platter, as we all are aware. It results from sheer determination, struggles, hard work, teamwork, and patience.
You might get inspired by looking at the glorious life of successful people around the world, but how many of you know their struggles? How many of you sit and ponder over the harsh realities and decisions they might have made to stand where they are now?
I bet not many. We are the generation who gets excited by materialistic things. We look at the people living a luxurious life, wearing fancy clothes, sitting at a table of exquisite flavors, and we forget that they, too, are humans like us.
Everything they have today is everything they have earned and strived for each minute.
Being successful is an innate desire that resides in all of us, but why is it that some people get success in life while others don’t? The answer is simple; they take risks. They challenge themselves and their circumstances, they fight their fears, and they work hard.
If you have a goal in your mind, stick to it and let these success stories inspire hard work and determination in you.
Steve Jobs
Just like Apple itself, Steve Jobs is the name that has been on the tongue of almost every other person. Whether it is a child, adult, or elder, everyone around the globe is familiar with this legendary person.
Steve Jobs is known as the iconic figure for the creation of Apple, the biggest company. The world knows Apple as the $2 Billion company with over 400 employees was started by Steve Jobs, but like said above, not many know the struggle story.
This legendary organization started with only two persons in a garage. Not only this, but Steve Jobs faced rejection, he was fired and dismissed from the company he was working on, but he never gave up on his hard work.
His determination and hard work ended up with the establishment of the skyrocketing company; Apple.
Steve Jobs Quoted; “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people”
Albert Einstein
Every Science nerd must have heard the name of Albert Einstein. Even if you aren’t, I am sure you are aware of the remarkable contributions of this great man.
He is an extraordinary scientist and a genius personality for his incredible inventions and contribution to the science world.
The success story of Albert Einstein is full of failures. During his childhood, Einstein struggled majorly. He was a child who was not able to even speak properly until the age of nine. He suffered continuous failures and was even expelled from school.
He applied to Zurich Polytechnic School, but his admission was not even considered. However, all the struggles, hurdles, and complications were not big enough for him to give up his passion.
In the ocean of Science and Technology, Einstein proved to be a remarkable gem and even won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”— Albert Einstein
Bill Gates
“If you want to know success, you must taste failures”
This has been particularly true in the case of Bill Gates, a great entrepreneur who established Microsoft.
Bill gates learned the lessons of failure before celebrating the taste of success. This historical personality is a dropout student from Harvard. Furthermore, his self-owned business known as Traf-O-Data was one of the biggest failures in History.
His entire investment got drowned, and unfortunately, he had nothing to even complete his education. Still, the guy was determined and persistent and never gave up on his hard work.
This great desire and passion for computer programming based stuff led him to build Microsoft, the biggest software company. And the world will never forget his name.
“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” Bill Gates
J.K Rowling:
Let’s talk about the literature world, shall we?
J.K Rowling is one of the most famous authors around the globe, typically known as the writer of the Magical World of Harry Potter.
Rowling has proudly opened up about her struggles and failures on her journey to becoming a successful writer.
She suffered from an unsuccessful marriage with an infant and a poor financial situation to support herself. Not only this, her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, took a long time and determination to complete, but it was rejected 17 times.
Rowling stated that it was criticized for being a children’s book and that no one was interested in publishing a children’s book.
However, Rowling knew her creativity; she believed in her hard work and knew she had created a masterpiece. She didn’t give up and finally got her book published.
The rest is the history we all know.
It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.” J.K Rowling
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh’s life story is the epitome of what struggles, pain, and mental illness feels like. Vincent Van Gogh is a famous painter and artist, along with a world-renowned icon in the world’s history.
He is famous for his jaw-dropping painting known as the Starry Sky.
However, constant failures, improper bonding in relationships, and struggles with mental illness forced him down into the pit of darkness. Unfortunately, Gogh ended up committing suicide at the age of 37.
During his life, he only sold a single painting which revolutionized him in the world of arts and paintings, which is alive to date.
Today, the world has a whole art museum dedicated to Van Gogh to pay tribute to his magnificent painting.
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, and then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh
These struggle stories scream hard work, determination, faith, passion, and desire, and as long as you have these, nothing can stand in your way.
