Top 5 Inspirational Stories After Failure of Successful Celebrities

Inspirational stories of success after failure - We do not like failure, and we can assume that all of people don’t either.

Not only is failure painful and humiliating, it usually means that the return on all of our effort, time, and money is zero.

Unfortunately, as much as all of us hate failure, it's guaranteed. In fact, the only way that we can avoid failure is if we do not push ourself in any way.

So what happens next? How can we prevail in times of failure?

Well, the easiest answer is to learn from our mistakes. Each failure is a lesson for greatness, and an opportunity to inch closer to success. When we fail it falls upon us to get back up. This isn't easy, and sometimes we will need a helping hand.

That is why we have come up with some ways to remain motivated after failure, so that we can get back up as soon as possible.

Never give up on our hopes and our dreams. Never allow someone else to tell us that we’re not good enough, smart enough or talented enough to achieve greatness in whatever capacity we’re seeking.

We can do anything we put our mind to. Anything.

Below, we’ll find some successful celebrities who failed at first. We’ll read their stories and realize just what they had to go through to succeed.

1. Beyonce Knowles

Beyonce Knowles

Beyonce was born in 1981. Her star rose early on in life. However, achieving dizzying success wasn’t without failure for her.

For Queen Bey, the failures started early in life but didn’t dissuade or discourage her from pursuing her dreams. But before Beyonce's solo career and before Destiny’s Child, there was Girl’s Tyme.

Girl’s Tyme was a young all-girl group that appeared on Star Search. She was just nine years old when the group lost, and she was shattered.

The group was formed when she was just eight years old and it stuck together for seven long years. Her father, Mathew Knowles, played a hand in managing the girls and quit his full-time job as a medical-equipment salesman, ultimately creating enormous financial pressure on the family.

Eventually, after eight years, the group’s name was changed to Destiny’s Child, and it had been cut down from the original six-member group, to just 4. Those years were fraught with difficulties.

After every setback and failure, she and the other 3-girls in the group, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Robertson and LeToya Luckett, pushed forward.

In 1996, the group signed to Columbia Records and had limited commercial success. But a storm was brewing internally.

Robertson and Luckett soon quit the group due to a conflict amongst the members, claiming that Mathew Knowles was favoring Knowles and Rowland. Eventually, the two were replaced, but ultimately, the 4th member was cut, leaving only 3 in the group, with Michelle Williams rounding out the trio.

2. Charlie Chaplin

Charles Spencer Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was born in 1889 in London, England, his early years were tumultuous at best.

Born into poverty, his father abandoned them at the age of two-years old, leaving his mother with no real income aside from the odd side job making dresses or nursing.

Chaplin's father provided no financial support for the family and at the age of seven-years old, he was forced to go to a workhouse, an institution in the United Kingdom where the destitute denizens of a parish are sent to work in exchange for room and board.

After returning from the workhouse for a brief period, his mother was committed to a mental asylum at the age of nine-years old, forcing him to go back to the workhouse again.

Afterwards, a brief two years later, his father, a raging alc0h0lic at the time, died of cirrhosis of the liver.

His mother battled mental illness for several years after that, until she was permanently committed to an asylum where she stayed until her death in 1928.

In the meantime, he and his brother, Sydney, were on their own, oftentimes going without food for days while trying to survive in the wake of all the familial turmoil.

During this time, he partook in stage plays and enhanced his comedic talents along with his step-dancing abilities.

Ultimately, Chaplin found his way to Hollywood, California where he was famously turned away and snubbed, only later to become the greatest silent-film actor to have ever lived.

3. Curtis Jackson A.K.A. 50-Cent

Curtis Jackson

Curtis Jackson was born in 1975, in Queens, New York, he professionally known as 50-Cent, had a tumultuous past and a precarious upbringing.

Growing up in poverty isn’t easy on anyone, especially in the Projects in New York’s roughest neighborhoods. Not only were dr*gs and crime all around him, but his mother, Sabrina, was a dr*g dealer.

At the ripe young age of just eight-years old, his mother, however, died in what’s been coined a “mysterious” fire.

Jackson's father left, leaving only his grandmother to help raise young Jackson, who started dealing dr*gs at the age of twelve-years old during what’s been labeled the “crack epidemic,” in the 1980’s.

In 1994, at the age of nineteen-years old, after a string of run-ins with the cops and a subsequent arrest for possession of dr*gs and a firearm, Jackson was sentenced to serve three to nine years in prison, but was instead sent to a bootcamp where he spent just six months, earning his GED in the meantime.

It was after Jackson's release that he adopted the name 50-Cent as a moniker for change, naming himself after a local bank robber by the same name.

Jackson states that he chose that name

“Because it says everything I want it to say. I’m the same kind of person 50-Cent was. I provide for myself by any means.”

In 2000, Jackson was infamously shot nine times at close range by an assailant outside his grandmother’s home and left for dead.

While in the hospital, Jackson signed a deal with Columbia records, but was subsequently dropped from that label and even blacklisted within the recording industry due to a song entitled, “Ghetto Qu’ran,” forcing him to go to Canada to record over thirty songs and release a mixtape.

In 2002, Eminem heard his song, “Guess Who’s Back?” and ultimately signed Jackson to his label, Shady Records.

Jackson was coached by both Eminem and Dr. Dre, and released his first studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, which later went six-times platinum in the US and Jackson has since become one of the world’s most famous and best-selling rappers.

4. Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

He was born in 1935. Elvis Presley is a famous American musician who’s sold over 1 billion records worldwide.

Yet, while his fame is often celebrated, his failures are usually overlooked. The family lived in a shotgun house for several years until hard financial times forced them out due to an inability to maintain the payments.

In 1948, at the age of thirteen-years old, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee from their home in Mississippi.

Presley's family lived in boarding houses, which were temporary rooms that could be rented in a larger home where the common areas were usually maintained, before being able to afford a 2-bedroom apartment in a public-housing complex.

In 1953, when Presley was eighteen-years old, he walked into Sun Records, where he recorded a demo disc.

Nothing came of it. A year later, in 1954, Presley walked back into Sun Records to record another demo, which he also failed to make any traction with.

The same year, Presley failed an audition to become part of a vocalist quartet called the Songfellows. When asked by Presley's father what had happened, he stated, “They told me I couldn’t sing.”

Presley was so frustrated, that he decided to take up a job as a truck driver. Through a friend named Ronnie Smith, he met Eddie Bond, who led Smith’s professional band.

Turned out they were looking for a vocalist. They arranged some more recordings, which nothing came of until months later when he randomly launched into “That’s All Right,” Arthur Crudup’s 1946 blues number. That got the attention of a professional DJ, and the rest is history.

5. Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey was born in 1962 in Ontario, Canada. He is a renowned comedian, actor and entrepreneur, and quite possibly one of the most famous comic minds of our time.

However, Carrey’s early years were distraught with a string of failures, with a childhood steeped in poverty, which didn’t help his cause or because his family was unable to help him support his ambitions.

In 1977, at the age of just fifteen-years old, his family ran into severe financial problems, forcing them to move to a Toronto suburb where they all worked at the Titan Wheels factory.

He took a job as a janitor, doing eight-hour shifts after school had let out. However, after they left their factory jobs, they lived out of a VW camper van until they could afford enough money to move back into a house.

Once his family had financial stability, Carry made his standup debut at a Toronto comedy club called Yuk Yuk’s.

Supported by Carry's dad who made the drive to help aid his son to follow his dreams, he bombed during his 1st time on stage.

However, Carry didn’t give up, even after the painful failure that it caused to be heckled and booed off stage, much like Jerry Seinfeld experienced initially.

He kept at it. In fact, Carry dropped out of high school to pursue his passion. Eventually, in 1979, at the age of just seventeen-years old, he moved to Los Angeles, and found his way into a regular standup gig at The Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood.

However, after a failed marriage, and five-years had passed, he threw himself into acting roles. Initially, it didn’t pan out, but Carry kept at it.

In 1990, after eleven-years of trying to pursue his dreams, Carry got his break to appear on a show called, In Living Color. But it wasn’t until 1994, at the age of thirty-two, when he got his biggest break to star in the film, Ace Ventura, fifteen-years after arriving in Hollywood.

It was that role that helped to catapult him into stardom. While Carry suffered through major failure along the way, his fame is now much talked about around the world.

Success takes time and effort. Yes, many times we will fail before we are successful.

Ask just about anybody who has become successful if they have ever failed at any aspect of their journey. Chances are we will get quite a few stories of missteps and blunders.

Perhaps these historic figure has inspired us the way that the successful people who have failed above have inspired all of us.