1. Take A Chance.
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2. Dismissed...
...from drama school, with a note that
read: “Wasting her time; she’s too shy to
put her best foot forward”...

4. Turned Down...
...by the Decca Recording Company,
who said: “We don’t like their sound, and
guitar music is on the way out”...

6. A Failed...
...soldier, farmer, and real estate agent, at
38 years old, he went to work with his
father as a handyman...

7. Ulysses S. Grant

8. Cut...
...from the high school basketball team,
he went home, locked himself in his
room, and cried...

9. Michael Jordan

10. A Teacher Once Said...
...he was “too stupid to learn anything,
and he should go into a field where he
might succeed by virtue of his pleasant
personality”...

11. Thomas Edison

12. Fired...
...from a newspaper because he “lacked
imagination and had no original ideas”...

13. Walt Disney

14. His...
...fiancé died, he failed in business
(twice), he had a nervous breakdown,
and he was defeated in eight elections...

16. If you have never failed,
then you have never lived.

17. And there is nothing you can’t
live down, rise above, or grow beyond.

18. Take a chance.

19. Ascendi ®
Rise Above. Grow Beyond.
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