I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he introduced me by saying:
“I want to tell you why I let Jack use my horse. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy’s high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.”
“That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.”
“He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, `See me after class.'”
“The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, `Why did I receive an F?'”
“The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you’ll have to pay large stud fees. There’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher added, `If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.'”
“The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, `Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for you.’ Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all.
He stated, ‘You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.'”
Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, “I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace.”
He added, “The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week. When the teacher was leaving, the teacher said, ‘Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.'”
“Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.”
– Author Unknown
An inspiring story………….. amazing….. I like this.
Ya it’s really inspiring because I am also a dream follower so it’s really good story for me.
True…. now I will follow my dream of becoming an entrepreneur with even more faith.
What makes your future and your personality is your dream. I want to fight with all my energy to reach my dream.
Life approaches us with a tiny fragments of decision or risks and leads to the bigger picture of glory… it decided there itself what u’ll be……by ur choice of decision or risk like monty risked the grade but decided to keep the dream…..
It inspirited me lot . . . . . . Thank u
Dreams do come true … but you need a decisive heart … for God can give you everything and anything in this world just ask and you will receive…
Let us all have faith in whatever we dream and pray to God he will never forsake.
Nice story.
Dream is what life is made for, life is meaningless without big dreams…
Awesome stories! I’m hoping that it can help me on my projects!
i love this story
Every inventions at the first time they were all just a dream but whom invented them was who keep his/her Dreams
Interesting…
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I love Montry Roberts and I hope to have my very own horse rescue! So his story inspired me to keep believing!
So I do wana say to my profsr keep your F, I will keep my dreams…
It was a great story.. it inspires me so much… it only means that everything is possible if we have a determination and courage to pursue our dreams in life… in fact, it’s our choice if we really mean to make our dreams come into a reality… I SALUTE…
I really love this story… so whatever it takes never stop dreaming! You can have it… Prayer is the best!!
Really liked the story. So inspiring.
Nice story, I love it
I have been going through a lot lately. I consider myself a disgrace. I just go with the flow of life each day. It’s like I can’t hold on anymore. My dreams seem like a distant future and I even have stopped believing in them. The one thing I have leared in life is that people in the world will never believe in you till they have seen you succeed and so a person should just believe in himself always. This story made me cry and made me believe in my dreams once again. My dream is to become a writer. I have had many writings published but I still think that I am not good enough. But from now on I am going to wait, believe in myself and am going to see myself hail heights. Thanks a tonne. 🙂
Such a great story …… inspiring, motivating…. never stop dreaming…. dream as big as u can!!!!!!
Have dare to be with that dream … I too have some dreams.. which somewhat relate with this story
……………”hope i too get sucess to fulfill my dream”……………..
Nice way to produce Positive energy.
Story is really very cool.
I appreciate.
Excellent Johnny dreamer & a very nice story
very nice…
Dare to Dream !!!
Tomorrow me and my group will tell and comment on this story in class…. thanks to those who published it here.
Awesome story which inspired me a lot……………definitely will dream bigger & stick 2 it
It is amazing. I really loved the story.
Awesome story.. Inspired me… Wish to stick to my dreams
It is a wonderful story of a boy’s determination to keep his dream and make it happen. How sad to think teachers can ruin any childs dream and put them down, that is not what
a good teacher does. I was disappointed that the author did not have the father be more supportive of his son’s dream. Yes, it was an important decision, but as a father, he should have said something better than that.
very good
Awesome! Now onwards i will believe in myself not in what others think about me. Thanx alot!
Nice story…
15. Rajeev kumar, that’s one very good comment. I’ll try my best to live up to it and never give up.
When you find a dream inside your heart, don’t ever let it go because dreams are the seeds from which beautiful tomorrows grow…
Nice lines by Channakya. You are born without anything but you die with your name. So that name must not be a word, it must be a history…
So nice
Jack Canfield? May GOD bless him!
This is a truly inspiring and motivational story….
Jack Canfield is the author of this story. Read it long back in a book named – From where you are to where you want to be – Jack changed my life….!!
Wow….wow…wow… It’s amazing. Like it so much… Thanks.
It’s tough to stick to your goal or stick to rightoeusness in adverse situations. We all do adjustments and compromises but the Boy did not do.
I liked his statement: “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.”
i cant resist myself to read dis story again n again
its trully inspirational
very inspiring…i love it. mostly we block our dreams when we allow our fears to grow bigger than our faith.
nice and superb story
DREAM IS THE CREAM OF LIFE. BUT DON’T SCREAM ABOUT IT
strong commitment prosper.
Excellent Story Thanks alot
i like the story it is so cool
Great! It’s better to give a deaf ear to those who show you a 1000 reasons why you won’t achieve your dream.
This story is very inspiring. It gave me a motivation to pursue my dreams and continue holding it though thick and thin. One day, I wish my story will be told to others too.
Continue motivating and inspiring people… Your site is worth visiting.
very nice story…..and very inspiring!
fantastic inspirational story
If you don’t at least try to persue your dreams, you will never succeed.
Anything is possible if you just believe.
They that stand the episodes and create a story from it grow better because they don’t see just an episode but a story in the mind forever.
Superb story…
It’s a nice story.
Really it’s good.
I want to become teacher .the moral of this story will remain in my heart along with my mind.
I’ll bust up ones dream alive at any cost at any way.
I wish everyone to have a dream.To achieve it have burning courage.
Be stalward
be gentle
be concious
be active
be benevolant
be clever
be dareful
be enthustic
be fatabulous
be generous
be hardworking
be intellect
be jubbeline
be knight
be laborious
be master
be not nimble
be optimist
be passionate
be quite
be reasonable
be social
be talented
be useful
be vast
be watchful
be xilo
be yougth
be zestful
Really a good one.
Johnny Dreamer,
Keep up the Spirit, U wil definetly achieve ur goals.
Thank u dear, it’s pointing to the real fact of life. if one has no dream then that can’t reach on that point to achieve it…
I have failed a lot in life and now at this point in time I have decided to cooperate with God’s Graces and do his will and actually live to my fullest potential with the abilities he blessed me with.
When I was younger I let everybody and anybody sway me and discourage me from doing the right thing and I realize now so many years later, that I have only myself to blame for all those failures of mine.
Never let anybody ever tell you that you can’t accomplish anything in life, because with GOD all things are possible. I’m 43 and I’m going to school for the first time since I was in High School. Yes I can and so can you. Thanks for this very inspiring story.
Wow
Nice story … really like it…….
Nice story
A great story… very inspiring …. because sometimes we don’t have enough faith in ourselves..
That’s great!!! Good goal ha..!! Keep up with the determination.
this story has helped me keeping my dream…
Excellent dream…….where one day my dream story will also be added in this site !!!!!!!!!!
Thumbs up to all those that holds dream as that of Monty. however through GOD everything is possible, so glinch to the LORD that for him Dreams are REALITY. SON’ IF THERE IS A WILL THERE IS WAY’.
This encourages me, because I’m very like Monty. But I serve a great big God and between him and we make an unbeatable team.
ITS VERY STRANGE AND MOST INFORMATIVE. TO DEVELOP OUR CHARACTER IT IS NECESSARY
And don’t tell your dream to anyone less they realise it before you.