Thousands of famous people have triumphed over inauspious beginnings, crushing rejections, defeats and other assorted challenges and speed bumps along life's highway.
Bill Cosby dropped out of high school and worked in a shoe repair shop and car muffler plant.
Jay Leno applied for job at Woolworth's but failed the employment test.
Elvis Presley's music teacher at L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee, gave him a C and told him he couldn't sing.
Sylvester Stallone, thrown out of fourteen schools in eleven years, studied drama at the University of Miami, where professors discouraged him from pursuing a career in acting.
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University in 1975.
Walt Disney's first cartoon production company. Laugh-O-Gram, went bankrupt.
If at first you don't succeed, welcome to the club!
Everyone encounters pot holes, stumbling blocks and detours. If you discover you are on the wrong road, get off at the next exit, don't be afraid to change direction and remember you can ask for help.