PERSEVERANCE
“Perseverance” is the quality of
continuing to try to achieve a particular aim despite difficulties.
Remember the days when climbers who wanted
to reach Mount Everest failed many times but did not abandon their resolve.
They repeated their efforts and each time reduced the distance between
themselves and the world’s highest peak. During those efforts somebody
encouraged them by saying : the height of Mount Everest will remain the same, but the height covered by the climbers will continue to
increase.
Perseverance is persistence,
tenacity, pertinacity, determination, resolve, obstinacy, diligence, patience and
diligence.
Difficulties, obstacles, setbacks,
failures, and initial problems, should not lead to abandonment of one’s aims.
Pessimists are timid and sluggish; optimists
are brave and dynamic. The former fail to accomplish their enterprises; the
latter succeed in achieving them.
A famous proverb says: God helps
those who help themselves. Let us say: Perseverance
is self-help; success is the result of God’s blessing.
The Scottish essayist and historian
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) said: Every noble work is at first impossible; and
according to the British philosopher Edmund Burke(1729-1797) : the nerve that never
relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders, --these
are the masters of victory.
The French author of Maxims Franco
VI de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80)
believed: Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want
of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.
It is not wrong to say that victory belongs to
the most persevering.
It is also not wrong to say that all the
performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances
of the resistless force of perseverance.
Finally, this great truth: Great
works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
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G.R.Kanwal
4th September 2o25
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