GRIT

This successful actress and former Miss World Pageant member was bullied in high school.

Once a 12 year-old runaway who had to sleep in a cardboard box, this man is one of the most successful boxers today.

This author was divorced and penniless when she wrote her first popular book. The book was rejected by 12 publishers.

This author of thrillers threw his first book in the trash. His wife dug it out and encouraged him to keep writing.

This man was a slave and taught himself how to read and became one of the leaders of the civil rights movement.

This man is one of the richest people in the world and his first business failed.

This man’s first animation company went bankrupt.

This man was cut by his high school basketball team.

Mexican artist who used art as a way to express her suffering & was the first Mexican artist to be in the Louvre Museum.

This inventor failed at LEAST 1,000 times before creating the lightbulb.

This woman grew up in poverty and was abused, a teen Mom, and told she was a bad news anchor.