5 Most Popular People of the World who overcame huge obstacles to achieve

The most common quotes we hear very often like "The failure is the start to success", "Fight the problems", "You can do it!!","Try ans try till you succeed" etc etc. The people often say these and some people take these seriously and some just ignore them.
At some point of life we think or rather we realize that are these words really true? Should they be followed?
What's the real use of following it? These are the most common questions a person question himself/herself.
These words are actually said by the people with their experience in their life. These words come from the hearts of these people after achieving their goals by overcoming many obstacles in their life.

So these are some successful people who made these words true or rather gave these words. These people inspire many young minds or rather they become a role model to the young minds.

This is the list of 5 popular people of the world who overcame huge obstacles to achieve their goals.

1. Bill Gates

  

Billgates' first business failed.Yes, the world's one of the most richest man failed in his first business. He couldn't make money out of his first business. Billgates' first company Traf-O-Data was a device making company that read traffic tapes and process the data failed miserably. When Gates and his partner Paul Allen tried to sell it, it didn't even work. They did not stop working after their failure. The words said by Paul Allen "Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft's first product two years later ". In this way they kept on going and became the world's largest personal computer software company. 

This is one of the best example that failure is not a stop for achieving the goal, it is the beginning of success. A famous quote of Billgates on failure "Its fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure".

2. Albert Einstein

Yes! It is the greatest scientist ever who invented general theory of relativity also has a story in which he overcomes many obstacles in his life. Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old. He had a very rough childhood. Infact many people thought he was a dud. He never spoke for the first three years of his life. Many of his teachers thought he is lazy and wouldn't make anything of himself. He was busy in thinking the things that the outer world cannot understand. It was like he did not give answers to the teachers when he did not talk and the teachers could not answer to his questions when he started to talk. 

So, just imagine that if Einstein did not talk!! then there would not be the theory of relativity that relates to each and every part of mankind. A famous quote by Albert Einstein "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new" and another one "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them".

3. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

News paper boy who later became the President. Yes! Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, known as "The Missile Man of India" also know to be a great President used to distribute news papers and study during his childhood. Dr. Kalam belonged to a poor family who had high aspirations to study. During his childhood he used to distribute news papers every morning and studied with the money out of it. He had to face many obstacles in his professional career also. SLV-3 was a failure first and he was criticized but still he tried again and he came out with a great success. If he had stopped studying in his childhood due to his financial condition, then now India would not have a great President, a missile man, architect of vison 2020. He always believed and still believes in three things "Perseverance, Hard work and Patience"  which made him a role model to the youth of India and the world. Famous quote of Dr. Kalam "Failure will never overtake me if my definition to succeed is strong enough".

 4. Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey used to be homeless. Yes! a great comedian and a great actor was homeless during his childhood. At the age of 15 he had drop out from his school to support his family. His father was an unemployed musician and they used to live in a van. But still Carrey did not lose his hope and his dream to become a comedian. He started going to comedy clubs, started giving mega shows and now he is the best comedian of the era. So, we would have missed his great performances in some of the great movies like The Mask, Dumb and Dumber etc etc if he would have chosen some other way during his childhood. Famous quote by Jim Carrey "Life opens up opportunities to you, and either you take them or you stay afraid of taking them" .

5. Walt Disney

Walt Disney was told he lacked creativity. It sounds to be odd to hear the previous statement. But that's true. He was fired by the editor of a news paper because, "He lacked creativity and had no good ideas". It seems to be that a creativity genius was fired from a news paper as he lacked creativity. But yes he did not stop when he was fired and he started many businesses and he failed and was bankrupted. Desperate and out of money, Disney found his way into Hollywood and faced more criticism and failure until finally his first few classic films started to skyrocket in popularity. Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world. A famous quote by Walt Disney "If you can dream it, you can do it".

These are the 5 most popular people of the world who overcame huge obstacles to achieve. So always consider a failure as a first step to success. Try to learn from each and everything of the life. Try to be an inspiration to someone. Try to welcome success by learning from your failures.