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“Never Give Up, Never Give Up, Never Give Up”
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend Giving up when things get tough is always the easy way out but it never fulfills your dream. It is the fortitude to continue, regardless of the opposition and resistance, until you finally succeed that fulfils dreams. Below are three examples of some who faced utter defeat, but rose to the moment of challenge and won. The title above is actually a speech in its entirety, just nine words in all. Winston Churchill gave this speech, the shortest speech ever given in history by…
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Success and the Longest Race…
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein Website DIVISIONS(Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend What does success have to do with the longest race? It is the endurance factor required for racing a dog sled team for close to 1200 miles in some of the most remote, desolate and cold demographics in the world. Success, like the longest race, is also a long hard race that requires much endurance and a not quitting attitude. Susan Butcher was born in Cambridge,…
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Overcoming the Handicaps that Stand in our Way to Success…
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend All of us have to overcome some handicap or the other, real or imagined. We are either too short or too tall or too fat or too skinny or any number of other things that we use for an excuse for not excelling. The greatest handicap of all according to Jessica Cox who was born with no arms is a lack of faith in yourself. Jessica lives our her dreams. She drives a car, flies an airplane, has a double black belt in taekwondo…