Motivated By Being Handicapped

John Milton was blind, yet he could write England’s greatest poem. Beethoven was also stone blind, but yet again he could composed some of the most beautiful music ever. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken by polio and was paralysed from the waist down at the age of 39, was elected president of the United States, not once but to a fourth term.

What drives these people to achieve such a success? The answer is their handicap. Helen Keller said, “I thank God for my handicaps for without them I could not have succeeded.”
Thinking that they have failed and not accepting failure and handicaps as reasons, they were motivated to prove otherwise. Dr K. Sri Dhamananda once said, “To learn from failure is to achieve success. Never to have failed is never to have won. Unless we experience failure and its bitterness, we will never appreciate the sweetness of victory.”

They have perseverance and concentration. C.W. Wendte once said, “Success in life is a matter not so much of talent and opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.” They have faith and confidence in themselves. Douglas Mac Arthur said, "You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair”.