I’m not worth your excuses
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Some of the most renowned figures suffered significant disabilities and adversity:
Ludwig van Beethoven, German classical music composer… went deaf. Beethoven’s extraordinary musical genius and productivity was not diminished by the influence of his many ailments. To deafness, his most well-known disease, other diseases were added, such as liver cirrhosis, nephropathy and chronic pancreatitis. In addition, he had gastrointestinal, bronchial, joint and eye disorders.
Glenn Cunningham, a world-record-holding runner… suffered such severe burns to his legs in a school fire that doctors told him he would never walk again.
Sir Walter Scott, the British novelist, poet and publisher… survived a bout with polio in his childhood, which would leave him lame in his right leg for the rest of his life.
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States who abolished slavery… was raised in poverty.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second President of the United States…was afflicted with infantile paralysis.
Booker T. Washington, Garriet Tubman, Marian Anderson and George Washington Carver… were all born into a society filled with racial discrimination.
Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor… was a child who survived in a poor family of eighteen children.
Itzhak Perlman, concert violinist…was paralyzed from the waist down since he was four years old.
John Bunyan, writer and preacher, author of the book Pilgrim’s Progress…was in prison.
George Washington, the first President of the United States in 1789… was frozen in the snow at Valley Forge.
Benjamin Disraeli, the English Prime Minister… was the subject of terrible religious prejudice.
The vast majority of good excuses to fail…they don’t exist!
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