Remarkable People Are Sweet People

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success"

 

Norman Vincent Peale

 

 

Mother Teresa by Photobucket

Anyone could be remarkable. What makes a person remarkable? The word remarkable means "notably unusual" or "worthy of notice". A remarkable person then is someone who is unusual, who is worthy of our noticing.  Being "unusual' or "worthy of notice" does not necessarily mean being famous or well-known. Many famous people are not remarkable, and many people who are truly remarkable are not famous.

Who are these remarkable people?

• A former U.S. president devotes the rest of his life to promoting peace, to helping resolve conflicts, and to building homes for the needy around the world.
• A professional golfer uses his fortune to support organizations in helping children to excel and to reach their dreams.
• A young woman who wants to make a difference in environmental issues and in education spends a year counting penguins and teaching school to children in a lonely outpost at the bottom of the world.
• Someone who sacrifices his food for the children who are out-of-school-youth, being abandoned and neglected.
• A teenager who is lame at birth and learns to develop his other skills and talents to become a useful and proper citizen of the society.

Some of these people are rich and famous, and some are not. Some are young and some are old. What do they have in common? All of them are remarkable.

 

These people are remarkable because all of them set difficult goals and then worked hard to achieve them. Perhaps, that is the measure of remarkable individuals; people with courage, strength and perseverance to work - and keep on working - toward something that they believe in. As Booker T. Washington once said, "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

 

We can learn a great deal from people we consider to be remarkable. We can be inspired by their work and their way of being because they enable us to see what is possible in one life.

 

May your December be glorified!

 

Love,

 

Sofia Ann

SWEETLIFE Author&Founder

 

Reference: Patricia Werner Mosaic 1