"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
American Inventor
1847 - 1931
Since we don't know the future, we often give up on our goals before we should. Sometimes the closer we come to achieving our goals, the more discouraged we become. To us the night appears to be darkest before the dawn. So the key is not to give up on your dreams. Hold fast to your dreams.
Thomas Edison held over a thousand U.S. Patents in his lifetime. He invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, a stock ticker, a vote recorder and the light bulb. In 1914 the phonograph factory of Thomas Edison burnt to the ground. Over night he lost more than 3 million dollars. The next day when Edison was walking through this burnt out factory, his son came over to console him. Thomas Edison turned to his son and said: "There is great value in disaster. It burns up all our mistakes. Thank God we can start anew." Within three months, he went out and build a new factory, redesigned the phonograph and gave the world a brand new phonograph.
