Sunday, 6 October 2013

Success Comes with Persistence

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For those who have experienced a setback in their life, don't think that it is the end of the road. Push yourself up and try again. Rise up and continue with your journey. Here's an article that may inspire you: Credit

Hilary Clinton- Secretary of State, former Senator for New York State, former candidate for President of the United States, First Lady during Bill Clinton’s presidency, attended Yale Law School, wrote her bar exam in Washington DC and failed. She later wrote and passed the Arkansas Bar Exam, practicing patent law and intellectual property law. Her pro bono interests were in the area of child and family advocacy;
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America, failed the New York bar exam on his first attempt.
 Michelle Obama- First lady;  graduate of Harvard Law School, failed her first try at the Illinois Bar Exam, said to be one of the easier bar exam States;
 John F. Kennedy Jr., failed the NY bar exam twice before he passed on his third try.
 Benjamin Cardozo- Renowned Justice of the United States Supreme Court, former Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who entered Columbia Law School at the age of fifteen, failed at his first attempt at the New York Bar Exam;
 Jerry Brown, the current governor of California, failed the CA bar exam on his first attempt before passing on his second attempt.
 Pat Robertson - founder and host of the 700 Club and leader of the Christian Coalition, graduated from Yale Law School but failed the bar exam. He then abandoned law and obtained a Doctor of Divinity degree. He founded Regent University which includes a Judeo-Christian law school.
 Pete Wilson - former governor of California, failed the California bar exam three times before he passed on his fourth try.
 Kathleen Sullivan - former Dean of Stanford Law School, Marshall scholar at Oxford, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1981, constitutional and appellate law expert, often mentioned as a candidate for the United States Supreme Court, failed the California Bar Exam, but rewrote it in 2006 and passed. Many years earlier she had been admitted to both the Massachusetts and the New York bar.
 
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