Career Counsellors always advise people to stick to their passion and demonstrate commitment to their careers despite setbacks and problems. The following article tells the stories of famous and successful people from different fields of life but they share characteristic in common the commitment to their cause.

J. K. Rowling:

Rowling may be rolling in a lot of "Harry Potter" money today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel. Rowling went from depending on welfare money to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.

Albert Einstein:

As a child, Einstein could not speak until he was four and could not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti- social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admission to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics. Now the name Einstein is synonymous with genius.

Abdul Sattar Edhi:

Abdul Sattar Edhi was a Pakistani philanthropist who built a nationwide network of more than 300 humanitarian centres offering a wide range of life-saving services to the people of Pakistan. Edhi began his humanitarian work in 1951, soon after partition, with just Rs. 500. Over the next decades, he helped save lives of at least 50,000 children and created a fleet of 1,800 ambulances, 28 rescue boats and two airplanes to function in emergencies. Since 1997, the organisation has held Guinness record for world's "largest volunteer ambulance service". Abdul Sattar Edhi passed away on 8th July, 2016. He was given a state funeral, attended by tens of thousands of people.