We can also learn a lot from some famous people. Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease when he was 21 but he never let this disease stop him from following his passion and achieving a life of happiness. Abraham Lincoln had all the setbacks, challenges and tragedies to survive on his way to becoming president of the United States. There are many more people like this in this world. Look around you will find may so do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Following is an inspirational story which will help you to keep moving.
One day I decided to quit…I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality… I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. “God”, I asked, “Can you give me one good reason not to quit?”
His answer surprised me…“Look around”, He said. “Do you see the fern and the bamboo?”
“Yes”, I replied.
“When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.
He said. “In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit.”
He said. “Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant…But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.
It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle.”
He asked me. “Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots”. “I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you.” “Don’t compare yourself to others.”
He said. “The bamboo had a different Purpose than the fern.
Yet they both make the forest beautiful.” “Your time will come”, God said to me. “You will rise high” “How high should I rise?”
I asked. “How high will the bamboo rise?”
He asked in return. “As high as it can?”
I questioned. “Yes.”
He said, “Give me glory by rising as high as you can.”
- Author Unknown
Great Quotes on Preservance
“There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.”
-Vincent Lombardi
“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.”
-Zig Ziglar
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
-Nelson Mandela
“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
-Lord Chesterfield
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
-Buddha
“Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!”
-Hector Crawford
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
-Billie Jean King
“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
-Jacob A. Riis
Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
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