The Big Book Of Inspiring Stories

A Powerful Collection Of Tales Of Courage That Inspires And Strengthens The Soul!

This volume features a selection of the world’s most inspiring stories
to move the body and soul. Inspire your readers with these tales of
courage and bravery so that they can have a breakthrough in their
own struggles, no matter where they are.
Featured in this massive book are tales of people overcoming
extraordinary hardship and achieving breakthroughs in their lives.
Their strength and courage serve as a source of inspiration and
motivation for us all.
The Big Book Of Inspiring Stories -
A Powerful Collection Of Tales Of Courage that Inspires
and Strengthens The Soul
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Chapter 1:
Success Stories Of Great People And Inspiring Leaders
Thomas Alva Edison is one of America's most famous inventors.
Edison saw huge change take place in his lifetime. He was responsible
for making many of those changes occur. His inventions created and
contributed to modern night lights, movies, telephones, records and
CDs. Edison was truly a genius.
Edison is most famous for his development of the first electric
light bulb. When Edison was born, electricity had not been developed.
By the time he died, entire cities were lit by electricity. Much of the
credit for electricity goes to Edison.
Some of his inventions were improvements on other inventions,
like the telephone. Some of his inventions he deliberately tried to
invent, like the light bulb and the movie projector. But some
inventions he stumbled upon, like the phonograph. Of all his
inventions, Edison was most proud of the phonograph.
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Edison invented and improved upon things that transformed
our world. Some things he invented by himself. Some things he
invented with other people. Just about all his inventions are things we
still use in some form today. Throughout his life, Edison tried to
invent things that everyone could use.
Edison created the world's first "invention factory". He and his
partners invented, built and shipped the product - all in the same
complex. This was a new way to do business. Today many businesses
have copied Edison's invention factory design.
A business friend once asked Edison about the secret to his success.
Edison replied, "Genius is hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common
sense". But his "common sense" was very uncommon. More patents
were issued to Edison than have been issued to any other single
person in U.S. history: 1,093.
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Beethoven was born on 16th, December, 1770 in Bonn of Germany.
His father was a singer in local palace choir. Beethoven's father was a
very common person and he was addicted to gambling. However, his
mother was a fairly kind-hearted and gentle female. She married an
assistant as her first marriage and married to Beethoven's father
when her ex-husband died.
Beethoven didn't have access to go to school for the reason that his
family was very poor. Nevertheless, he had a special feeling of music
when he was very young. His father wanted to make use of his
potential to make a big fortune. As a result, Beethoven had to practice
playing clavicorn and violin day and night under his father's pressure.
Beethoven had a performance on a stage for the first time when he
was only seven years old and he made a huge success. Some famous
musicians considered him as the second Mozart. Beethoven learned
how to compose music from Nifo and published his first work named
Concerto in A minor when he was 11. He went to Vienna to learn how
to compose music from Mozart and Haydn.
It seems that he would have a fairly bright future when Beethoven
received the first success in 1800. Nevertheless, he was troubled with
a terrible matter for years at that time. He found that he has became a
deaf person. There couldn't be anything more terrible than that for a
musician. He sank into a blue mood for a long time as a consequence.
Beethoven has an enthusiastic heart all the time. But his enthusiasm
was often unfortunate. He often tolerated both hope and enthusiasm,
disappointment and resistance. There was no doubt that all of these
emotions had become his unique source of creation. He fell in love
with Julia in 1801 and composed a music named Moonlight for her
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specifically. To his disappointed, she couldn't understand his noble
soul and refused him. Beethoven was upset and despairing for that
and married a comte before long. It was the most hopeless moment
for him and once a time, he wrote down a paper of posthumous
papers.
He came to life in 1803 and composed some bright and warm music
such as The Second Symphonies. From then on, several more
beautiful and marvelous music were produced. Some of them are
fairly famous and