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Nick Vujicic

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Nick Vujicic
[[File:Nick Vujicic speaking in a church in Ehringshausen, Germany - 20110401-02.jpg|225px|upright=1]] Vujicic speaking in a church in Ehringshausen, Germany, April 2011
Born	Nicholas James Vujicic 4 December 1982 (age 32)[1] Melbourne, Australia
Ethnicity	Serbian Australian
Education	Double bachelor's degree in accounting and financial planning
Alma mater	Griffith University
Occupation	Evangelist, preacher, motivational speaker, Director of Life Without Limbs
Religion	Christian
Spouse(s)	Kanae Miyahara (m. 2012)
Children	2
Website	lifewithoutlimbs.org

Nicholas James "Nick" Vujicic (/ˈvɔɪ.ɪtʃɪtʃ/ VOY-i-chich; Serbian: Николас Џејмс Вујичић, Nikolas Džejms Vujičić, pronounced [ʋûjit͡ʃit͡ɕ];^[2] born 4 December 1982) is an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by the absence of all four limbs. As a child, he struggled mentally and emotionally as well as physically, but eventually came to terms with his disability and, at the age of seventeen, started his own non-profit organisation, Life Without Limbs. Vujicic presents motivational speeches worldwide which focus on life with a disability, hope and finding meaning in life.
During secondary school, Vujicic was elected captain of Runcorn State High School in Queensland and worked with the student council on fundraising events for local charities and disability campaigns. When he was seventeen, he started to give talks at his prayer group^[3] and later founded his non-profit organisation, Life Without Limbs.
Vujicic has written that he keeps a pair of shoes in his closet due to his belief in miracles.^[4] In 1990 he won the Australian young citizen award for his bravery and perseverance. In 2005 Vujicic was nominated for the Young Australian of the Year Award.^[5]

Contents

• 1 Education
• 2 Career
• 3 Personal Quotes
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Education

Vujicic graduated from Griffith University at the age of 21 with a Bachelor of Commerce, with a double major in accountancy and financial planning. Subsequently he became a motivational speaker, travelling internationally and focusing on teenage problems. Having addressed over three million people in almost 60 countries on five continents,^[6] he speaks to corporate audiences, congregations and schools.

Career

Vujicic speaking during the session "Inspired for a Lifetime" at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 30 January 2011

Vujicic promotes his work through television shows and through his writing. His first book, Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life was published by Random House in 2010. He markets a motivational DVD, Life's Greater Purpose, a short documentary filmed in 2005 . The second part of the DVD was filmed at his local church in Brisbane – one of his first professional motivational speeches. He markets a DVD for young people titled No Arms, No Legs, No Worries!.^[7]
In March 2008, he was interviewed by Bob Cummings for the 20/20 American television show.
He starred in the short film The Butterfly Circus, which won the Doorpost Film Project's top prize of 2009.^[8] In 2010, the film also won two awards as the Best Short Film at the 2010 Method Fest Independent Film Festival. At the same film festival, Vujicic was awarded Best Actor in Short Film for his starring performance as Will.^[9] Butterfly Circus also won the best short film award at The Feel Good Film Festival in Hollywood in 2010.^[10]
Vujicic is a motivational speaker with TED.^[11][12]

Personal Quotes

• "If I can encourage just one person then my job in this life is done".
• "Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing... But Is losing failing"?
• "I love my life, because I've seen my purpose".
• "I am gonna try again and again, because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail".
• "I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter".
• "It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything".
• "Along the way you might fall down, ... sometimes in life, you might fall down and can't find the strength to get back up... do you think you have hope? Because I tell you, I'm down here and I have no arms and no legs, ...It should be impossible for me to get up, but it's not".
• "As long as I try, there's always a chance of getting up. It's not the end until you give up".
• "I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are".
• "I may not have hands to hold my wife's hands, but I don't need hands to hold her heart. That's what I'm gonna hold".
• "I have the choice to be angry in God for what I don't have or be thankful for what you do have".
• "There's no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken in the inside".
• "I will try one hundred times to get up, and if I fail one hundred times. If I fail and I give up, will I ever get up? No! If I fail I'll try again, and again and again. But I want to tell you it's not the end".
• "Failure is not important, how you overcome it is".^[13]