The Reward of Persistency
Persistency is characteristic of all people who have accomplished anything great.1 They may lack in some other particular area and may have many weaknesses and eccentricities, but the quality of persistence is never absent in a successful person. No matter what opposition they meet, or what discouragements overtake them, they are always persistent. Drudgery cannot disgust them, labor cannot weary them. They will persist no matter what comes or what goes; it is a part of their nature. They could almost as easily stop breathing.
It is not so much brilliance of interest or fertility of resource as persistence of effort and constancy of purpose, that gives success. Persistency always inspires confidence. Everybody believes in the person who persists. He may meet misfortune, sorrows, and reverses, but everybody believes he will ultimately triumph because they know there is no keeping him down. “Does he keep at it- is he persistent?” This is the question which the world asks about a man. Even a man with a small will often succeed if he has the quality of persistence, where a genius without it would fail.
Let us call to mind the very familiar saying that “if at first you don’t succeed; try, try, again.” This is persistency- a moral form of the Holy Book.
Footnotes
- Perspectives from Luke 18:1-7 ↩︎
