Do you feel like giving up? Do you feel all hope is gone? Do you feel all alone? So many questions needing answers but this is common when facing seemingly insurmountable circumstances but do not give up if you keep trying your change will surely come. It is difficult to expect success or anything good to happen when there is so much that is going wrong in life. Do not give up things can and will get better.

Just look at Babe Ruth, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Graham Bell all failures but no one remember them that way. What people remember is that Babe Ruth was a homerun king, Abraham Lincoln became president, Benjamin Franklin discoverd electricity, and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone but rarely ever does anyone remember their failures. Why or how did these men accomplish this? These men never gave up they just kept trying to do what they believed.

Babe Ruth just felt he could hit home runs so he stepped to the plate every time and kept trying to hit home runs. He did not count the number of times he struck out he just enjoyed the feeling every time he hit the ball over the fence. Abraham Lincoln did not worry too much about the times he did not succeed in winning an election he just got back into the next race he was eligible for until he became president-he kept trying. So did Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Graham Bell they did not focus on their failures but they kept trying until they succeeded. Each failure to each of these men was one step closer to success.

Believe in yourself. "Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of the clouds of doubt, you can never tell how close you are, it may be near when it seems so far: stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, it's when things seem worst that you must not quit." (Bradley Tyler). Do not stop trying. When you give up it assures that you will fail. Whatever you are going through just know others made it through their trials and tribulations. You can make it too! It is easy to give up when you cannot think of something to live for and when you have lost your direction.

Never stop trying to be better. Always strive for perfection. You may never achieve everything you want in life but if you try hard enough and long enough you may surprise yourself and do most of what you wanted. It is never too late to try. It takes faith, perseverance, inspiration, and perspiration to accomplish the great things in life. Remember most people do not start out trying to be great it is just something that happened when they just refused to give up. This can happen to you if you will just hang in there and do not give up on yourself-you have what it takes to succeed sometimes it just takes a little longer than others.

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