Motivational Minute (12_64)

    

                                                                                                                                  Pictuer by Naomi

Quote of the day:

"My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for--someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me."  -- Thomas A. Edison

Consider:

Mother’s are wonderful and have a great influence on their children. However, you can have the same good influence on others if you always look at others with eyes of potential as is portrayed in the following story.

A partially deaf boy came home from school one day carrying a note from officials at the school. The note suggested that the parents take the boy out of school, claiming that he was "too stupid to learn."

The boy's mother read the note and said, "My son Tom isn't 'too stupid to learn.' I'll teach him myself." And so she did.

When Tom died many years later, the people of the United States of America paid tribute to him by turning off the nation's lights for one full minute. You see, this Tom had invented the light bulb--and not only that, but also motion pictures and the record player. In all, Thomas Edison had more than one thousand patents to his credit.

You never can tell what an influence you will have on a person when you have a little faith in them.