LegallyBlondo

Recently I have discovered some great motivational websites. I would love to share a few of these sites with you. The information on these websites have been a blessing to me in the last month.

The first is the text for Steve Jobs’ commencement address at Stanford University in 2005. In case you don’t know who Steve Jobs is, he is the CEO of Apple Computers. I found his speech to be very uplifting and it gave me a renewed sense of hope even though I wasn’t there to hear it first-hand.

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Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age.

But They Did Not Give Up Here is just one example from this website. This site has become one of my favorites!

As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success. He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858. At about that time, he wrote in a letter to a friend, “I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth.”

Be sure to check out the site for many more examples of people who overcame the odds in history, politics, sports, entertainment, business, and more.