The power of persistence
The river clam endured the grinding of sand and persevered, and finally gave birth to a beautiful pearl; the iron sword endured the red tempering of the fire, persevered and was finally refined. It becomes a sharp sword. All heroic words and heroic words are illusions. Only persistence is the cornerstone of success. When inventor King Edison tried thousands of materials when developing incandescent lamps, they all failed. Some people laughed at him and said: "You will never succeed." Edison remained unmoved, never abandoned or gave up, and persisted in researching without eating or sleeping. Finally, he successfully developed the world's first electric light, bringing light to the world. He persisted in research throughout his life and invented a series of inventions that benefited future generations a lot. His name was gleaming in the annals of history and has not faded over the years. His reputation has been passed down to this day. It is persistence that makes his life glorious. Looking at the century-old scroll of the Olympics, we can also find the highlights of persistence. As early as the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, when Xu Haifeng won China's first Olympic gold medal, 24-year-old Wang Yifu stood on the podium. Since then, the members of the national team have changed one after another, but Wang Yifu always insisted on the field, and he vowed to win an Olympic gold medal. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Wang Yifu got his wish and won the gold medal in the ten-meter air pistol. At the age of 32, he should have retired, but doubts kept him in the game - he wanted to prove himself. Finally, after two defeats in 1996 and 2000, Wang Yifu realized his dream of Athens and used practical actions to make public opinion uproar. At this time, he was 44 years old. It was persistence that allowed him to persist despite setbacks and finally succeeded. History is like a broken sword in the sinking sand, which will be washed away; it is persistence that allowed Liu Yuxi to finally become a clear lotus that emerged from the mud and remained unstained after experiencing the misery of "abandoning himself for twenty-three years"; it was persistence that allowed Su Zi to look forward to his life Being caught up in the "Wutai Poetry Case" and insisting on writing "I'm talking about being a teenager" is persistence. Liu Yong completely ignored the increasingly wider belt and shed a story that will last forever. Cao Xueqin persisted in eating porridge with his family and wrote the immortal Dream of Red Mansions; Ouyang Xiu lost his father when he was young and devoted himself to studying and became successful; Kuang Heng, who came from a poor family, persisted in digging out walls to borrow money and finally became a university student. The sages are telling us a truth through personal experience: persistence is an indispensable condition for success. Therefore, when Heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to this person, he must first work hard on his mind and body. Let me ask you this: How many people can succeed if they cannot endure hardship? Even though there are thousands of years, there are eight directions, the future is like the sea, and the future is long. Friends, from today on, learn to persevere. Only then will you have the opportunity to control the vast earth alone, and proudly ask who is in charge of ups and downs. I still remember the essay question for the high school entrance examination in 2007. It was a cartoon: the protagonist in the cartoon dug five wells, but none of them found water. But every sip is just a step away from the water. Just dig another shovel and there will be water... Looking back on ancient and modern times, there is no successful great person who did not succeed through unremitting perseverance. Without Edison's efforts like digging a well, where would the electric light have brought us light; if not for Watt's persistence like digging a well, where would the steam engine have brought us convenience; without Napoleon's persistence like digging a well, would there have been That's where France's strength comes from. Their success is not accidental, but a matter of identifying a goal, working hard for it, persevering for it, and persevering for it. A well does not stop until water is dug. So their success is inevitable. Looking back at the protagonist in the comics, what is the reason for his failure? He lacked perseverance. With this spirit, you can turn decay into magic. Without this spirit, even if you are a genius, it will be in vain. Some people who are also disabled will only beg for sympathy from others. And some will smile against the wind, and they will persevere and fight with a hundredfold effort. The same is true for Zhang Haidi, she makes life shine with dazzling light; the same is true for Helen, she makes life bloom beautiful flowers; isn't it the same for Hawking? He turned the darkness in life into lasting light. One miracle after another, the only thing they have in common is persistence. If you persevere, a drop of water will penetrate a stone; if you persevere, an iron rod will become a needle; if you persevere, a rope will cut off a piece of wood. These seemingly impossible things will succeed if you persist.
The definition of success may not be persistence, but without persistence there will be no success. Back to the issue of the well again: you may not find water if you keep digging, but there will definitely be no water if you don’t dig. Persistence is the first element of success. The well is right in front of you, how do you dig it? How to dig? It's up to you.
If you persevere, the rotten wood will not be broken; if you persevere, the metal and stone can be carved.----Xunzi, don't lose faith, as long as you persevere, you will eventually achieve results.----Qian Xuesen, the great man's last words The obvious sign is his strong will. No matter how much the environment changes, his original intention and hope will not change at all, and he finally overcomes the difficulties to achieve the expected goal.----Edison finally looked forward to one day It is not enough to take steps to achieve the ultimate goal. You must also regard each step as a goal and make it work as a step. ——Goethe, German poet It is more important to persevere when you achieve something than to persevere when you fail. ——La Rochefko, French writer Patience and persistence are painful things, but they can gradually bring you benefits. ——Ovid, ancient Roman poet The most terrifying enemy is the lack of strong faith. ——Romain Rolland As long as you continue to work hard and strive unremittingly, there is nothing that cannot be conquered. ——Seneca In the duel between hope and despair, if you hold it tightly with courage and determination, victory will belong to hope. ——Pliny Since you expect a glorious and great life, you should start from today to create happiness for you and mankind with your own wisdom and perseverance with unwavering determination and unswerving faith. ——Anonymous Persevering in a great cause requires an unswerving spirit. ——Voltaire You must have a strong will, excellent abilities, and perseverance to achieve your goals. ——Goethe
The only power I have to achieve my goals is my persistence. ——Pasteur One of the great advantages of outstanding people is their perseverance in adverse and difficult encounters. ——Beethoven To succeed in this world, you must persist to the end: never let go of it until death. ——Voltaire You must do your best in everything, and those who give up halfway will never achieve anything. ——Shakespeare Creation and invention are not the result of accident, but the fruit of persistent research. 1 The famous British writer Dickens paid great attention to observing and experiencing life. Regardless of wind or rain, he would go to the streets every day to observe and listen, and write down the fragmentary words of passers-by, thus accumulating a wealth of life information. In this way, he wrote wonderful character dialogue descriptions in "David Copperfield" and realistic social background descriptions in "A Tale of Two Cities", thereby becoming a generation of British literary giants and achieving great success in his literary career. success. Edison spent a full ten years developing batteries. During this period, he suffered constant failures and persisted. After about 50,000 experiments, he finally succeeded and invented the battery. He was awarded the title of "King of Inventions".
Dickens and Edison achieved their final victory by perseverance. Perseverance enabled Dickens to leave many excellent works to people and add many fine works to the treasure house of world literature; persistence enabled Edison to overcome many difficulties and make indelible contributions to the progress of mankind. It can be seen that persistence can make people achieve career and academic success. ?
2 Those losers often fail to persevere at the last moment and give up their efforts, missing out on success. I once remembered that a Swedish chemist seemed to have discovered a new element when he was extracting iodine from seawater. However, faced with the tedious refining and experiments, he retreated. When another chemist spent a year and after countless experiments finally added a new member to the element family - bromine and became famous throughout the ages, the Swedish chemist could only watch silently as the other chemist was immersed in the joy of victory.
Of these two chemists, one persisted and succeeded; the other did not persist and failed. It can be seen that persistence is the last obstacle to victory. In the darkest moment, that is, the moment when light is about to come, especially in such moments. The more you need to persist. Because persistence is victory. ?
3 Helen Keller was blind in both eyes and deaf in both ears, but she worked hard to transform from a sympathetic and unknown little girl into a strong woman respected by the whole world. If life is really unfair, then life is extremely unfair to her. She could give up her dream and hide in a dark corner and cry loudly, and no one would blame her. She could also lie in bed or sit in a wheelchair and be cared for like a vegetable. But she didn't do any of this. She just struggled to learn Braille with the help of the teacher and touch things, relying only on her never-give-up faith and perseverance. She painted her ideal sky with the brightest color in life
It is said that Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty in my country, lacked patience in studying when he was a child and often skipped school. One day, he came to the foot of a high mountain and saw an old lady grinding an iron rod. Li Bai was very confused and stepped forward to ask. The old lady told him to grind out an embroidery needle. Li Bai was amazed. How could an iron rod be ground into a needle? The old lady said: "As long as you have perseverance, you are not afraid of failure." Li Bai was deeply inspired. From then on, he studied hard and never slackened off, and finally became a generation of "poetic immortals".
5 Persevere, success is at your feet. Persistently challenge setbacks until final success. Let stress be your motivation to reach the finish line. A desperate situation is a challenge and an opportunity. As long as you persist, you will succeed one day.
Numerous failures lead to a glorious life
Although Lincoln tried again and again, he suffered failures again and again: the business collapsed, his lover died, and he lost the election. If you encountered all this, would you give up? Let go of these things that are important to you. Lincoln did not give up, nor did he say, "What will happen if we fail?" Lincoln never gave up his pursuit, and he was always the master of his own life. In 1860, he was elected President of the United States.
7 If you persist a little longer, success will be within reach
In 1905, Laurence Chadwick successfully crossed the English Channel and became world-famous. Two years later, she swam from Cardena Island to the beaches of California, hoping to set another unprecedented record.
That day, the sea was filled with thick fog and the water was freezing cold. After swimming for 16 long hours, her lips were blue from the cold, her whole body was exhausted, and she was shaking. She looked up into the distance and saw mist in front of her, as if the land was very far away from her. We can't see the coast yet, so it seems we won't be able to complete the trip this time. As she thought this, her body immediately went limp, and she didn't even have the strength to paddle again.
"Drag me up!" she struggled to say to the people on the boat accompanying her.
"Bite your teeth and hold on, there is only one mile left." The people on the boat encouraged her.
"You lied to me. If there was only one mile left, I should have seen the coast long ago. Drag me up, quickly, drag me up."
So, all over my body A shivering Chadwick was dragged up. The boat drove forward at full speed. Just as she wrapped herself tightly in the blanket and drank a cup of hot soup, the brown coastline emerged from the thick fog. She could even vaguely see the cheering crowds waiting for her on the beach. Only then did she realize that the people on the boat had not lied to her, and that she was indeed only one mile away from success.
"A journey of a hundred miles is half a mile." The last stretch of the road is often the most difficult threshold to cross. In fact, in everyone's life, whether in work or life, there will be more or less extreme environments, or extreme dilemmas, of one kind or another. Sometimes it takes just a little bit of perseverance and a little bit of hard work, and success can be within reach, instead of just passing by with regret.
8 Marie Curie put more than 20 kilograms of waste slag into a smelting pot at a time, heated and melted it, and stirred the boiling slag liquid with a thick iron rod for several hours. Only trace amounts of one part per million are extracted from it. From 1898 to 1902, after countless extractions and processing dozens of tons of ore residues, 0.1 grams of radium salt was finally obtained, and its atomic weight was determined to be 225. Marie Curie also became a scientist admired by the world.
A young student asked Tao Yuanming for advice. Tao Yuanming took him to the edge of the field, pointed to the rice seedlings that were a few feet high, and asked: "Look carefully, is it growing taller now?" The young man squatted down and stared at the rice seedlings for a long time, and said, "I don't see any growth." Ah." Tao Yuanming asked, "Are they really not growing? Then, how do the seedlings become so tall in spring?" The young man shook his head in confusion. Tao Yuanming enlightened: "Actually, these seedlings are growing all the time, but we don't observe it. The same is true for reading and studying. The growth of knowledge is accumulated bit by bit, and sometimes you are not aware of it. But as long as you study hard, , If you persist, you will change from knowing little to knowing a lot. Therefore, some people say, "Studying hard is like a seedling that grows in spring." Then Tao Yuanming pointed to a big millstone and asked: "Look at the grindstone, why does it have a concave surface like a saddle?" The boy replied, "That's because it's worn." "Then have you ever seen when it was worn like this?" the boy said. : "I have never seen it." Tao Yuanming further induced: "It is made by farmers sharpening knives, sickles, and hoes on it every day. Over time, it is worn out. It can be seen from this that 'dropping out of school is like a sharpening stone without seeing it. "Every day you lose something, you will lose something." Once learning is interrupted, the knowledge learned will be forgotten slowly and unknowingly. "The enlightenment of the teacher has made the young man realize that learning must be "step by step and persevere", and "Studying hard will lead to progress, and dropping out will lead to progress. "Retreat" principle.
In order to treat the "sleeping sickness" that was prevalent at that time, the bacteriologist Eulich discovered a chemical called "Atocher" that could kill the larvae that caused sleeping sickness. However, there was a fly in the ointment. This drug can also cause blindness in people. Eulich and his assistants persevered, and after 606 trials and 605 failures, they finally succeeded in creating a drug that could save comatose patients without damaging the patient's vision, named "606".
In 1508, Italian sculptor, painter, and poet Michelangelo accepted the task of painting a large mural on the roof of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The task was quite daunting: the roof is more than 20 meters high, the area is 300 square meters, and there are more than 340 figures in the painting. He worked day and night, fell off the scaffolding many times, and was seriously injured. After 4 years and 3 months of hard work, he finally completed this huge mural that shocked the whole of Italy, but his body was deformed.
CCTV's "Art Life" program introduced the growth experience of the famous dance performance artist Dao Meilan. Daomeilan dance has left an unforgettable impression on people with its unique style of simplicity, naturalness, innocence and sweetness. Wu Xiaobang, the founder of my country's new dance, once praised her: Where are people dancing here? It is clearly God descending from the sky! The reason why she has achieved such high attainments is inseparable from her daily hard practice of hard skills. When Dao Meilan was working at the Central Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble, she lived in a warehouse. The living environment was hot in summer and cold in winter. However, she practiced basic skills for more than ten hours a day. Sometimes she was so tired that she didn't even want to eat, and she was so thin. Only about forty kilograms. Year after year, day after day, perseverance requires so much perseverance!
American scientist Franklin was born in poverty when he was young. He went to school at the age of 8 and became an apprentice in a printing press at the age of 12. But the harsh environment did not block his pursuit of knowledge. He studied hard on his own and laid the foundation from scratch. After nearly 30 years of hard work, he taught himself most of the knowledge about electricity, thus correctly explaining the nature of electricity - the law of conservation of charge, and successfully revealed the secret of thunder and lightning.
In 1948, Oxford University held a lecture on "Secrets of Success" and invited the great man Churchill, whose reputation was at its peak at that time, to give a lecture.
The day finally arrived, and the venue was packed with people. All major news organizations from around the world were present. People are ready to listen to the secret of success of this great statesman, diplomat, and writer (Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature). After stopping everyone's thunderous applause with his gesture, Churchill said: "There are three secrets to my success: first, never give up; second, never, never give up; third, never, never give up. , Never give up! My speech is over." After that, I walked off the stage. After a minute of silence, the venue burst into warm applause that lasted for a long time.
To make one kilogram of honey, a bee must fly 300,000 kilometers and suck the juice from 12 million flowers. Each time it returns from collection, it has to spit out the juice from its stomach and feed it to another bee. Suck it into your own stomach, hesitating and vomiting like this 120 to 340 times, and the juice turns into honey. However, the honey at this time still has a lot of water, which is not suitable for storage. The bees have to constantly blow their wings to evaporate the water. Finally it turns into thick honey. From this point of view, honey comes from the perseverance of bees.
According to historical records, Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Chu, had different intentions for learning when he was young. He soon lost interest in learning to read and write. He wanted to learn swordsmanship. After a short time of practicing swordsmanship, he got tired of it. He also wanted to learn the art of war. . His uncle Xiang Liang was very angry about this, but Xiang Yu was "ambitious" and answered plausibly: "It is enough to learn to read and write, and to be able to recognize and write your own name; no matter how good you are in swordsmanship, it is just learning." The ability of "one man to fight" is insignificant; if you want to learn the ability of "to fight against ten thousand people", Xiang Liang was moved by these words, so he began to teach him the art of war. At first, Xiang Yu was very interested in learning, but as time went by, he fell back into his old ways and continued to dabble in it. As a result, he couldn't stick to it until the end. This bad habit that Xiang Yu developed in his youth laid deep hidden dangers for his future "overlord career". His final defeat in the Chu-Han War was due to his impetuous temperament, lack of perseverance, and lack of strategy.
Sima Guang was a child who loved to play and sleep. For this reason, he was often punished by his teacher and ridiculed by his peers. Under his teacher’s earnest instruction, he was determined to get rid of his bad habit of being a sleepy person. When he got up, he drank a full stomach of water before going to bed. As a result, he didn't wake up in the morning, but wet the bed. So the clever Sima Guang made a warning pillow out of garden wood. When he turned over in the morning, his head slipped on the bed board. Naturally, He woke up with a start, and from then on he got up early every day to study. With perseverance, he finally became a learned and great writer who wrote "Zi Zhi Tong Jian".
20 The great Han Zhang Qian was ordered to communicate with the Western Regions, but was captured by the Xiongnu and survived tenaciously. Later, he escaped from the clutches of the devil and went through an arduous journey to finally reach Dayuezhi and other countries. The desert is endless and the wind and sand are vast. The hardships they endured on the way are beyond human endurance, but Zhang Qian still persevered! Therefore, he will leave his name in history and shine for thousands of years! Similarly, Xuanzang traveled west to learn Buddhist scriptures and Jianzhen traveled eastward to spread Buddhism. These are similar examples.
21 During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, King Gou Jian of Yue stayed in the Kingdom of Wu and endured hardship for twenty years. Finally, he returned to his own country and defeated King Wu Fu Chai.
23 Sima Qian, the author of "Historical Records", continued to write "Historical Records" after suffering corruption, and finally completed this glorious work. What does he rely on? It's not just about persistence. If he had lost confidence in himself after being tortured and didn't insist on writing "Historical Records", then we would never be able to read this masterpiece again and absorb the essence of his thoughts, so his Success, his victory, the most important thing is persistence.
24 Foreign celebrity Jack London, his success is also based on persistence. He insisted on copying good words on pieces of paper, inserting some into the cracks of the mirror, pinning some on the clothesline, and putting some in his pocket so that he could memorize them at any time. Finally he succeeded, and he successfully became a generational celebrity. However, the price he paid was several times, even dozens of times, more than others. Likewise, persistence was also the guarantee of his success.
25 Xunzi said: "A horse can make ten steps with one leap, and a horse can ride ten steps, but the merit lies in perseverance."
"This also fully illustrates the importance of persistence. Although the horse is stronger and has stronger legs, it can only jump once and cannot exceed ten steps at most. This is the consequence of not persisting; on the contrary, a bad horse will Although it is not as strong as a horse, if it can pull the cart for ten days without stopping, it can still go very far. Its success lies in walking without stopping, that is, in perseverance. This is also like the tortoise and the hare race: the hare The long legs run much faster than the tortoise. Logically speaking, the rabbit should win this race. However, the result is exactly the opposite. The tortoise wins this race. What is the reason? This is precisely because the rabbit does not persist to the end. Relying on his long legs and fast running, he ran for a while and then fell asleep on the side of the road. It seemed that he was sure of victory. However, the tortoise was different. He was not discouraged by his short legs and slow crawling. On the contrary, he became more persevering. Persistence is victory, it wins, and finally wins the game
26 "A drop of water penetrates a stone, and a rope cuts a tree." We all understand this truth, but why is it insignificant to the stone. Can a drop of water penetrate a stone? Can a soft rope cut through a hard piece of wood? To put it bluntly, the power of a drop of water is insignificant, but if many drops of water continue to hit the stone, it can. It forms a huge force and finally breaks through the stone. In the same way, the rope can cut the wood naturally. Failure is inevitable before success. However, as long as you can overcome difficulties and persist in your efforts, success is just around the corner.
27 When Qi Baishi was young, he asked a seal carver for advice on how to learn seal carving. The seal carver asked Qi Baishi to pick up a load of stones and practice at home. Year after year, with unremitting practice, the load of stones became less and less, turning into mud on the ground. At this time, Qi Baishi's seal carving skills were also very good, and he eventually became a famous seal carver. Qi Baishi succeeded. Just hold on, success is at your feet.