Around 2012, during my NYSC, I was posted to Ebonyi state. I worked in a company called "CRUSH ROCK". They mostly deal on breaking rocks into pieces and transforming them to granite tiles, part of it for roads etc. Then i notice the villagers also come to buy big rock and break into pieces for sell... you won't believe what they use to piece a big chunk of Rock.
A sledge hammer and chiesel.
You see them hammering away at the rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first strike, it will split into two, and I know it wasn't the last strike that did it, but all that had gone before.
Thats persistence!!!
In real life; this is what separates high achievers from non-achievers. Whatever you want to accomplish in life will require persistence. All things come to those who persistently go after them. You may be whatever you choose to be. Determine to be something in the world and you will be something. "I cannot" never accomplished anything.
In proverb 22:29
Seest thou a man diligent in his business?? He shall stand before kings..
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort doesn't produce half results. It produces no result. Hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last. The truth is that persistence can be a bitter plant but it has a sweet fruit. It takes time to succeed because success Is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. Victory always come to the most persevering.
Persistent people begins their success when most others quit by just hanging on for just a minute longer. This people never loose the game, they just run out of time.
