Top 10 Motivational Moments of Olympics

Derek Redmond - Injured Runner Helped to Finish Line By His Father

Derek Redmond was already a tragic hero. Having been forced to pull out of the 400-meter relay in 1988 due to an injury to his hamstring 90 seconds before he was to start, it seems Lady Luck was not on his side. When he returned to Barcelona in 1992, he had undergone eight operations, but was in relative good health. The first part of the relay went great; Redmond posted the fastest time and the team made it all the way to the semi-finals. But a mere 250 meters from the finish, Redmond re-injured his hamstring, and it seemed like victory was snatched from him once again. But a powerful thing happened. He refused to give up. As he hobbled along the final stretch, his father made his way past security to help his son cross the finish line. Sixty-five thousand people cheered them on. Although he came in last in the Olympic race, he came in first in the Human race. 

Why GOALS are Important ?

Everybody says us to set a Goal But why these Goals are important? Have you ever think of that? If yes, then read on........On the best sunny day, the most powerful magnifying glass will not light paper if you keep moving the glass. But if you focus and hold it, the paper will light up. That is the power of concentration.

A man was traveling and stopped at an intersection. He asked an elderly man, "Where does this road take me?" The elderly person asked, "Where do you want to go?" The man replied, "I don't know." The elderly person said, "Then take any road. What difference does it make?"

How true. When we don't know where we are going, any road will take us there.

Suppose you have all the football eleven players, enthusiastically ready to play the game, all charged up, and then someone took the goal post away. What would happen to the game? There is nothing left. How do you keep score? How do you know you have arrived?

Enthusiasm without direction is like wildfire and leads to frustration. Goals give a sense of direction. Would you sit in a train or a plane without knowing where it was going? The obvious answer is no. Then why do people go through life without having any goals?

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Lord Byron - The Man who walked with Difficulty but wandered at Will

Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic Movement. Some of his best known works are the poems "She walks in Beauty", "So, we'll go no more a roving" and "When we Two Parted". He is regarded as one of the greatest and influential British poets. He was born with talipes, a club foot. he was afflicted with a limp that caused him lifelong psychological and physical misery, aggravated by painful and pointless "medical treatment" in his childhood and the nagging suspicion that with proper care it might have been cured. He was extremely self-conscious about this from a young age, nicknaming himself le diable boiteux (French for "the limping devil"). It is said that he "walked with difficulty but wandered at will". He toured Europe extensively and captured the popular imagination through his poetry and his personality. From gloomy egoism through to satiric realism he was renowned for his writings, his sexual ambivalences and his championing of Greek independence from the Turks. His name is still used as an adjective - 'Byronic', meaning dashing.” Inspired? Like us in Facebook for daily updates. Good Day.

The Little Pianist

A mother, wishing to encourage her son's progress at the piano, bought tickets to a performance by the great Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski. When the evening arrived, they found their seats near the front of the concert hall and eyed the majestic Steinway waiting on the stage. Soon the mother found a friend to talk to, and the boy slipped away.

At eight o'clock, the lights in the auditorium began to dim, the spotlights came on, and only then did they notice the boy - up on the piano bench, innocently picking out "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." His mother gasped in shock and embarassment but, before she could retrieve her son, the master himself appeared on the stage and quickly moved to the keyboard.

He whispered gently to the boy, "Don't quit. Keep playing." Leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in the bass part. Soon his right arm reached around the other side and improvised a delightful obligato. Together, the old master and the young novice held the crowd mesmerized with their blended and beautiful music.

In all our lives, we receive helping hands - some we notice, some we don't. Equally we ourselves have countless opportunites to provide helping hands - sometimes we would like our assistance to be noticed, sometimes we don't. Little of what we all achieve is without learning from others and without support from others and what we receive we should hand out.

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Two Salesmen

You will perhaps have heard this very old story illustrating the difference between positive thinking and negative thinking:

Many years ago two salesmen were sent by a British shoe manufacturer to Africa to investigate and report back on market potential.

The first salesman reported back, "There is no potential here - nobody wears shoes."

The second salesman reported back, "There is massive potential here - nobody wears shoes."

This simple short story provides one of the best examples of how a single situation may be viewed in two quite different ways - Negatively or Positively.

We could explain this also in terms of seeing a situation's problems and disadvantages, instead of its opportunities and benefits.

When telling this story its impact is increased by using exactly the same form of words (e.g., "nobody wears shoes") in each salesman's report. This emphasises that two quite different interpretations are made of a single situation.

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The Old Hunchback - An Inspiring Story

A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words:

“The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself… “Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?” One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. “I shall get rid of this hunchback,” she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him!

As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. “What is this I am doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”

The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!”

” As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life!

It was then that she realized the significance of the words: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” Do good and Don’t ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time. If you like this, share it with others and I bet so many lives would be touched.
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JOhn Paul Dejoria - The Failure Story

Not every person in this world is born with a silver spoon. So when the spoon is missing, you have to earn it with your hard work, dedication and will power. By looking at the rich and famous people, we cannot make out the immense hard work behind their road to success. Today we are going to discuss the failure of JOhn Paul Dejoria......... the  renowned American serial entrepreneur, billionaire and philanthropist. He is the owner and co-founder of John Paul Mitchell systems, the US company famous for its hair-care products.

At a very young age of two, John saw his parents separating. At the age of 9, he and his siblings began selling newspapers and Christmas greeting cards to earn a living. At this age, John used to dream of a small job which would fetch him around $150 a week and a second hand car to drive in. He graduated at the age of 17 and went into the Navy. He got out of service in 1964 and tried out 10 jobs for the next few years.

The turning point in John’s life came in the year 1971 when he bagged a job with Redken Laboratories. At that time, it was the leading company for manufacturing salon products in US. In the next few years, he was hired and fired by numerous organizations. In 1980, he saw himself joining hands with Paul Mitchell, a famous hair designer at that time, to launch their own company. They soon rolled out single-application shampoo and a leave-in conditioner to improve blow-dry results.

With just $700, the company began operating. Since fund was less, they could not help but use only black and white ink on the product packaging. With just one answering machine and a post office box, they managed to start off their business. They requested a female friend who had a British accent to record the voice message for their answering machine which helped them convince the users that it was some serious business.

Today this company is a huge hit in the US for its hair products. Every salon use their products for superior quality. John Paul Mitchell Systems logs nearly $1 billion in annual sales. Not just the US, but they have even managed to establish roots in the international market too. More than 80 countries buy products of John Paul Mitchell Systems. Besides dealing in hair products, John has also successfully launched 17 other types of businesses. From night clubs to bikes, he has got them all under his belt.

John Paul DeJoria is a bright example of sincerity, dedication, will power and perseverance. Our world is blessed to have such humane human beings who have touched the pinnacle of success by their sheer will power. He is a great idol for every youngster and wannabe entrepreneur.

Always remember that success will only come, when you are ready to give in everything. Hence, dream big and have faith in your abilities!
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The Dream Stealer

I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.

The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, “I want to tell you why I let Jack use my horse. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy’s high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.


“That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.


“He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, `See me after class.’


“The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, `Why did I receive an F?’


“The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you’ll have to pay large stud fees. There’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher added, `If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.’


“The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, `Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for you.’ “Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all.


He stated, “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.”


Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, “I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace.” He added, “The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.” When the teacher was leaving, he said, “Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.”


“Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.”

The Man and the Butterfly

Are you feeling Bad about your present situations? Blaming god for not doing anything in favor of you? Please read this short story.......

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.

One day a small opening appeared.

He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours

as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole.

Then it stopped, as if it couldn’t go further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly.

He took a pair of scissors and

snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon.

The butterfly emerged easily but

it had a swollen body and shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch it,

expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge

and expand enough to support the body,

Neither happened!

In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life

crawling around.

It was never able to fly.

What the man in his kindness

and haste did not understand:

The restricting cocoon and the struggle

required by the butterfly to get through the opening

was a way of forcing the fluid from the body

into the wings so that it would be ready

for flight once that was achieved.

Sometimes struggles are exactly

what we need in our lives.

Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us.

We will not be as strong as we could have been

and we would never fly.

The story of Two Frogs

Once there were two frogs. One frog was fat and the other skinny. One day, while searching for food, they inadvertently jumped into a vat of milk. They couldn't get out, as the sides were too slippery, so they were just swimming around.

The fat frog said to the skinny frog, "Brother frog, there's no use paddling any longer. We're just going to drown, so we might as well give up." The skinny frog replied, "Hold on brother, keep paddling. Somebody will get us out." And they continued paddling for hours.

After a while, the fat frog said, "Brother frog, there's no use. I'm becoming very tired now. I'm just going to stop paddling and drown. It's Sunday and nobody's working. We're doomed. There's no possible way out of here." But the skinny frog said, "Keep trying. Keep paddling. Something will happen, keep paddling." Another couple of hours passed.

The fat frog said, "I can't go on any longer. There's no sense in doing it because we're going to drown anyway. What's the use?" And the fat frog stopped. He gave up. And he drowned in the milk. But the skinny frog kept on paddling.

Ten minutes later, the skinny frog felt something solid beneath his feet. He had churned the milk into butter and he hopped out of the vat!!!

Michael Jordan - Who Missed more than 9000 Shots in his Career

“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”......... MJ

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ, is a retired American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of theCharlotte Bobcats.

Who Stops You ?

What makes a Difference?

Once there was an old man. One day he was taking a morning walk at the beach. Suddenly he saw that along with the morning tide came hundreds of starfish and when the tide receded, they were left behind and with the morning sun rays, they would die. The tide was fresh and the starfish were alive. The man took a few steps, picked one and threw it into the water. He did that repeatedly. Right behind him there was another person who couldn't understand what this man was doing. He caught up with him and asked, "What are you doing? There are hundreds of starfish. How many can you help? What difference does it make?" This man did not reply, took two more steps, picked up another one, threw it into the water, and said, "It makes a difference to this one."

Are you feeling discouraged ???

Are you feeling discouraged ??? just have a look atwhat these people accomplished when everyone else looked at them as failures. Just Believe in Yourself!

• Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak. 

• Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school and was considered "Unpromising Student of the Class" 

• When Thomas Edison was a youngster, his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He was counseled to go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.

• F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his boss would not permit him to wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense to close a sale."

• Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

• Bob Cousy, a legendary Boston Celtic basketball player, suffered the same fate, but he too is a Hall of Famer.

• A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas."

• Winston Churchill failed 6th grade and had to repeat it because he did not complete the tests that were required for promotion.

• Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times, a major league record.

Remember Friends. A person may make mistakes, but is not a failure until S / He starts blaming someone else. We must believe in ourselves, and somewhere along the road of life we will meet someone who sees greatness in us and lets us know it.

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The poor girl suffered with Paralysis

1940 June 23, a poor couple gave birth to their gives birth to their 20th child. A Girl... She was very weak, born prematurely……. her weight was less than 4.5 pounds. Her father was a  railway porter and mother was a maid.  The little child contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at the age of Four. As a result, her left leg and foot became Twisted. She had also suffered with scarlet fever, whooping cough, chickenpox, and measles. The doctors decided that the girl cant walk in her life time. But her mother couldn’t believe those words. She had the strong belief that her child could walk . She took her regularly to Fisk University's black medical college hospital in Nashville, Tennessee for treatments for her twisted leg. She wore a brace on her left leg. She was required to wear an orthopedic shoe for support of her foot. The girl couldn’t bare the pain of those physiotherapy sessions and she just hated her life. She too wanted to walk like the normal people, that too without those brace and orthopedic shoe.

A series of Failure Stories of a Person

Today we want to share a failure story of a person... Just read the Synopsis of his life and see whether you would have had the courage to continue on. Have a look...

• 1809 
• He was Born
• 1816 
• His family was forced out of their home and he needed to work to support his family.
• 1818 
• His mother passed away
• 1828
• His sister died
• 1831 
• His business venture failed
• 1832
• He ran for the State Legislature. He lost.
• In the same year, he also lost his job.
•  He decided to go to law school but couldn't get in.

Colonel Sanders - The man behind the KFC's Logo

When ever I see the KFC’s (Kentucky fried chicken) logo, I just wonder who the person is. Later I came to know some astonishing facts aobut that Person in that logo. He is the founder of KFC. His name is Colonel Sanders.  When he was six years old, his father died. And his mother remarried. Little Sandars ran away from home because his stepfather beat him.
 
Sanders held many jobs during his working years but he found himself broke at the age of 65. See friends, This was the age of retirement and people usually think to take rest at this age, ofcourse they will invest some money for it too. But unfortunately, Sandars had not saved and invested any money.
 
All he was receiving at that time was $105 from social security. He was struggling financially  and was mad. Instead of complaining he did something about it. He thought restaurant owners would love his fried chicken recipe. So he started visiting different restaurants trying to sell his chicken recipe.

J. K. Rowling - The Creator of the Harry Potter

While  speaking to a Graduating Class of Harvard in June 2008, J.K Rowling, the author of Harry Potter and the well-known first self-made billionaire female children’s book author,  didn’t talk about success. She talked about failures. Her own in particular. I absolutely love her quote. So posting her quote as it is…

“You might never fail on the scale I did, But 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.

She should know. The author didn’t magically become richer than the Queen of England overnight. Penniless, recently divorced, and raising a child on her own, she wrote the first Harry Potter book on an old manual typewriter. You know friends? Twelve publishers rejected the manuscript! that editors kept reminding her that children’s book won’t see big commercial success but she went on and kept writing. A year later she was given the green light by Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury (the thirteenth publisher), who agreed to publish the book but insisted she get a day job cause there was no money in children’s books.

What if she stopped at the first rejection? or The fifth? Or at the tenth?

The measure of success can be shown by how many times someone keeps going despite hearing only NO.

IF YOu THINK

If you think you are beaten, you are.

If you think you dare not, you don't!

Tfyou like to win, but think you can't,

It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;

For out in the world we find

Success begins with a fellow's will;

It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,

.You've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourselfbt:fore

You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go

To the stronger and faster man,

But sooner or later the man who wins

                       Is the man who thinks he can.

This is to have succeeded.....

To laugh often and love much;

To win the respect of intelligent persons

and the affection of children;

To earn the approval of honest critics

and endure the betrayal offalse friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To Jfind the best in others;

To give off one's self without the

slightest thought of return;

To have accomplished a task, whether

by a healthy child, a rescued soul, a

garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

To have played and laughed with

Enthusiasm and sung 'lvith exaltation;

To know that even one life has breathed

easier because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded.