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| Displaying Inspirational Anecdotes: 39 Found |
Gardner
Unlike most millionaire stockbrokers, Gardner Rich & Company founder Chris Gardn...
God Bless America
In 1970, the photographer Richard Avedon staged his first major show at the Minn...
Novel Perspective
In 1735, the French Academy offered a prize for the solution to a certain astron...
Hugh Daly
Between 1882 and 1887, Hugh L. Daly played second base and shortstop and pitched...
Thick As Thieves
In August 2003, comedian and ex-con Mark Whiteley took to the stage at the Edinb...
Gipp's Ghost
Shortly before he died of pneumonia at the height of his career (in December 192...
Failure?
At the age of seven, he was forced to work to support his family. At nine, his m...
Determined Demosthenes
Demosthenes, generally considered the greatest orator of the classical period, o...
Gentleman's Agreement (long)
Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn, Jack Warner, Samuel Goldwyn, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zu...
Dyslexic Success
In 2003, a British study (conducted by Tulip Financial Research) revealed that s...
500 Pounds
Arnold Schwarzenegger was present on the historic day in 1970 when Vasily Alexey...
Yuogn Tom Cruise
In 2003, Tom Cruise revealed that he was dyslexic - and had learned how to read ...
Young Bikram Choudhury: Min...
At thirteen, Bikram Choudhury - inventor of Bikram yoga - won the National India...
Sun Fujimoto: Determination
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Olympic gymnast Sun Fujimoto nearly won a...
Geena Davis: Tall Tale
After graduating from Boston University (where she majored in drama) in 1979, Ge...
Ann Jillian: Cancer Survivor
In 1985, at the age of 35, Ann Jillian was diagnosed with breast cancer and unde...
Middle Fingers
The great Polish pianist, composer, and statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski was once...
Human Spirit
David Frost once interviewed South African president Nelson Mandela. "What every...
Young Aristotle Onassis
The shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis started out from humble beginnings. Indee...
Chicken Soup for the Busine...
In the fall of 1991, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield began shopping around ...
Grandma Moses
Though best known for her simple paintings of rural life (among them The Old ...
Blind Photographer
In the summer of 2003, Lithuanian photographer Remigijus Audiejaitis began takin...
Gabriel Byrne: The First Grief
Gabriel Byrne did not always get along with his younger brother. Indeed, in his ...
Phyllis George: Never
"The list of 'never's in my life is as long as a football field," Phyllis George...
Takacs
In 1938, sergeant Karoly Takacs, a member of Hungary's world-champion pistol sho...
Rostropovich
"When the Kremlin hard-liners pulled their August Coup [in 1991], Rostropovich w...
George Eyser
At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, American gymnast George Eyser won two go...
Black Pimpernel (long)
In 1961, Nelson Mandela ("the Black Pimpernel") went underground for more than a...
Hulking Determination
"Incredible Hulk" star Lou Ferrigno lost his hearing at an early age. It proved ...
Glenn Cunningham
When he was eight years old Glenn Cunningham was so badly burned that doctors to...
Helen Keller's Vision
In 1932, Helen Keller visited the Observation Tower of the Empire State Building...
Jack LaLanne
Jack LaLanne's childhood sugar addiction caused him to commit many acts of viole...
Nicephore Niepce
The French chemist Nicephore Niepce, famed for his role in the development of ph...
Shuji Nakamura: Rebellious ...
"Shuji Nakamura was just another rebellious inventor who had succeeded by trusti...
Young Moses Mendelssohn
"[In 1743] a fourteen-year-old Talmudic student named Moses Mendelssohn entered ...
Old Discovery
Not all scientific discoveries are made in a scientist's youth. The noted Americ...
Martin Luther King
From the time he assumed leadership of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1...
Jewish Catholic Saint
"True heroes are indeed rare. Unique is Edith Stein, who went to her
death in A...
Stephen J. Cannell
Over the course of his long career, Stephen J. Cannell created come 40 televisio...
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