Great man who are significant and that have ever been, have diligence as the common denominator, that have lifted them to a greater height in life. Diligence is still the mother of good fortune in life.

Wulian Pernn says

"patience and diligence like faith remove mountains“. No matter the height of the mountain of poverty, If a man can apply diligence to it the mountain will ultimately be removed"

We are going to learn about some great men who wrote their names in gold through diligence. The present generation and the coming ones would continue to get the blessings of diligence through them. They turned poverty to prosperity through diligence. Some of them still have their achievements as blessings to the generations that would come alter them. Their lives demonstrate that a poor background is nothing, but an opportunity to be made great through diligence. Their lives demonstrate that no poverty can overtake diligence. The few would be mentioned for the sake of brevity.

Charles Dicken (1812-1870)

Charles Dicken was born into abject poverty. His father, Dicken, was a great debtor. And being insolvent, he was sentenced to a prison because the debt was so huge. The condition was so terrible that all his friends deserted him.

Charles Dicken was born into this horrible situation. He had avery poor and dry background.

Charles Dickens had other four brothers, who the mother found difficult to take care of. The mother sent the four children, together with Charles, to be living with the father in the prison, so as to get their daily food. She too was poor to take care of the poor Charles and his four other brothers. She did this so that the children would not die of hunger. This harsh condition forced them to sell off their household furniture to survive.

Charles himself was disturbed with the condition he was born into. He could not spend more than four years of schooling. He sold some of his books to keep his soul and body together, when out of school.

Later, he got job with a bottling company where he was helping them to paste labels on bottles, earning a meagre salary.

He managed to rent a room where he attended 'self-made university'.

Charles changed his poor world by studying hard under the roof. He started to acquire wisdom upon wisdom through books he read.

Charles started to write for publication. Virtually all publication firms he wrote for turned him down for publication. Charles did not take no for an answer. By persevering in diligence, later, life started to take a better shape for Charles when he was inspired to write a small book titled: 'Christmas Carol'. The book was a fast selling one that above one thousand copies were sold the first day it came out of press. Some weeks later, the sale of the book had risen to about twenty thousand copies -very incredible.

Later on, the book was highly demanded world-wide that he translated the book into many languages.

J. P. Morgan, amulti-millionaire bought the manuscript with a huge amount of money. Charles then became a man in stupendous wealth. Charles did not stop being diligent. He went further to write as many as seventeen best-selling novels.

Diligence favoured him that he became great to the extent that he turned to be a celebrity that men were taking tickets to listen to. There was an instance when the tickets got exhausted, immediately. his 'hungry' fans went on riot.

Before Charles died, he became a man of stupendous affluence and achievement that his manuscript brought him three pounds (€3.00) a word - the highest ever paid to an author since the world began.

Charles Dicken was a prolific author of numerous best-selling books that are considered classics.

Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo (march 6,1909-May 9, 1987)

The sage was born into a poor family in Ekenne in Ogun State of Nigeria. He did not start on a silver platter. He was a down-to-earth sage. He did not allow his circumstances to disturb him to become a great and significant man. Chief Obafemi Awolowo was a diligent man. He never found himself in a geographical area of a university, as a student. But he graduated on Law Profession offered by one of the overseas universities. He divided his 24 hours into three segments. The first eight hours for reading; the second eight hours for serious work, and the third eight hours for sleep, exercise and relaxation. He was a man of precision and diligence.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847 1931)

He, most of his life, worked eighteen hours everyday. Until he was sixty-four, he only took catnaps occasional breaks to eat on the most work day. At the age of seventy-five, he had cut his work day down to sixteen hours-work in two-eight hours shift. He rarely slept for more than three or four hours a day: usually right in his laboratory work was the elixir of his life.

People wrote this about him. "He led no armies led into battle, he conquered no countries and he enslaved no people .... Nonetheless, he exerted a degree of power, the magnitude of which no warrior ever dreamed. His name still commands a respect as. sweeping in scope and as world-wide as that of any other mortal, a devotion rooted deep in human gratitude and untainted by the basis that is often associated with race, colour, politics and religion".

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter. sculptor. printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He was an epitome of diligence. He produced vast amount of works each day for most of his life. He painted eighteen hours a day until he was in his eighties. When asked why? he said “I never get tired”. “Picasso had many peeple who hated him, yet he followed his dream and he was successful” said a man.

At the age of ninety, he was still producing works of arts. He told a reporter: “I don't have a single second to spare”.

HIS ACHIEVEMENTS

• He promoted the development of cubism and the basis for art that is called abstract-the discovery of cubism.

• The achievement of Pablo Picasso himself. The achievement is shown by the thousands of print reproductions of his art Lots of people collect Pablo Picasso painting for their precious values. He touched his own life and the lives of other people -the best way to live.

• Guernica Painting: The Guernica painting is Picasso's most famous art work, is a protest against the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish civil war.

• Stalin Prize for Peace. Picasso was awarded the Lenin (Stalin) Peace Price in 1950 for his involvement in the Soviet Union. The Lenin Peace Price was founded in 1949 of December by Joseph Stalin. Picasso was the third person awarded the price.

• Accomplished during the Blue and Rose period. The blue period invoked blue practically in most of Picasso's work. The blue period represents negative and sadness of his paintings. The rose period that goes along with the blue period signals a choice of brighter pink tones within the previous blues.
  

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

He was born in Germany. He was a great physicist from America and Nobel Laureate. He was born with such a large head that his mother thought he was deformed. Albert grew and developed normally except that he looked a bit slow.

He had impediment in speech when he was young. He was fascinated with a couples which his father showed him on a bed of sickness, when he was about two years old.

Einstein had it rough academically when he was young. He was considered a slow learner, retarded and uneducable. His teacher wrote him off. He failed his university entrance examination. He later applied for admission into the Swiss Federal polytechnic School. He passed the Maths and the science aspects of the entrance examination but failed the art aspects.

He later became a Professor. He had a great mind for work. The man confessed there was never enough time to work. He was sometimes called an absent-minded Professor.

Not because he was actually absent-minded, but because he relegated social and other events to the category of a useless waste of time and energy.

BE DILIGENT!!

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