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Chapter 1

Perseverance

Introduction :

Perseverance originally comes the Latin word “Persevertia” which means to abide by
something strictly. Perseverance is one of the virtue that we should develop in ourselves.
Perseverance thoughts crystalize into the habit of temperance, self-control which solidify into
circumstance of success and peace. Lack of perseverance is one of the major causes of failure.
Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of perseverance is a
weakness common to most of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome by effort. The
ease with which lack of perseverance may be conquered will depend entirely upon the intensity
of one’s desire. Those who have cultivated the habit of perseverance seems to enjoy insurance
against failure. No matter how many times they are defeated, they finally arrive up toward the
top of the ladder. Sometimes it appears that there is a hidden Guide whose duty is to test men
pick themselves up after defeat and keep on trying, arrive. Those who can take it are bountifully
rewarded for their perseverance. They receive, as their compensation, whatever goal they are
pursuing. That is not all! They receive somethings infinitely more important than material
compensation, the knowledge that “every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent
advantage.”
A person who experience the soundness of perseverance. They are the one who have
not accepted defeat as being anything more than temporary. They are the ones whose desires
are so persevered applied that defeat is finally changed into victory. He who stand on the side-
lines of life see the overwhelmingly large number who go down in defeat, never to rise again.
We see the few who take the punishment of defeat as an urge to greater effort. One thing we
all know, if one does not possess perseverance, one does not achieve noteworthy success in
any calling.
Thomas Edison is one of the great inventor of all time, he had a vision to made an
incandescent light, as he continued to work he encountered temporary failure, as he continued
to work hard to finish his invention he encountered 10,000 failures before the perfected the
incandescent light. Without his perseverance, there is no incandescent light we see in our
house. Thomas Edison has an attitude of perseverance the “never give up attitude” He
persevere to do experiment and he endured all pain, temporary defeat he encountered until he
achieved what he wanted. As the bible say “whoever say to this mountain, be lifted up and
thrown into sea! And does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take
place, it will be done for him.” In life there are many troubles, trials, and sufferings we need
to encounter, but if we don’t have the perseverance, we cannot endure all the trials, and all the
sufferings in our life. We easily give up on the things what we want in life. We fall into the
path of least resistance.
Perseverance is one of the beautiful thoughts who gets what he/she wants in life. You
can achieve everything you want in life if you “never give up on your dreams, you love the
process of success not the result of success then you will harvest the fruit of perseverance.” A
person who have perseverance, he will never let the temporary failure stop him to achieve what
he wants.
In our generation, people now a day want instant gratification, they want to get the
things they want in life “now”. They don’t delay gratification, they love temporary pleasure,
they don’t have perseverance, and self-control of themselves. They easily fall into temptation
of life and they easily give up because they don’t want to suffer and don’t endure pain. The
thoughts of this generation filled with pleasure, entertainments and funs that is why people fall
into the temptation of drugs, lust, envy, vanity, egotism jealousy, fornication, pornography and
any of the things the encourage gratification. If you choose this things you will soon to be
perish, you will filled with life unsatisfied and there’s no fulfillment in your life.
The thoughts of perseverance who endure all the trials and sufferings will lead into
the habit of joy and peace and happiness. The person who persevere and willing to sacrifice
greater will harvest greater. Christ endure all pain in the Calvary after three days of His death,
He resurrected from the dead and received the glorified body, ascended to the heaven.
RELATED LITERATURE
However , this chapter discuss available studies of literature , this topic which was taken from
both abroad (foreign) and local.

Related Literature

Abroad :
During the Depression, W.C. Fields, the comedian, lost all his money, and found
himself without income, without a job, and his means of earning a living no longer existed.
Moreover, he was past sixty, when many men consider themselves old. He was so eager to
stage a comeback that he offered to work without pay, in a new field (movies). In addition to
his other troubles, he fell and injured his neck. To many that would have been place to give up
and quit. But Fields was persevered. He knew that if he carried on he would get the breaks
sooner or later, and he did get them, but not by chance.
Marie Dressler found herself down and out, with her money gone, with no job, when
she was about sixty, She, too, went after the breaks and got them. Her perseverance brought
an astonishing triumph late in life, long beyond the age when most men and women are done
with ambition to achieve.
Eddie Cantor lost his money in the 1929 stock crash, but he still had perseverance and his
courage. With these, plus two prominent eyes, he exploited himself back into an income of
$10,000 a week! Truly, if one has perseverance, one can get along very well without many
other qualities.
Henry Ford who started at scratch, and built an industrial empire of huge proportions,
with little else in the way of a beginning but perseverance. Or, Thomas A. Edison, who, with
less than three months of schooling, became the world’s leading inventor and converted
perseverance into the talking machine, the moving picture machine, and the incandescent light,
to say nothing of half a hundred other useful inventions.

Local :
Rodrigo Duterte is no a genius student at his schooling, but because of his perseverance to
change the country, he started to change Davao City from ruin, full of crimes and drug addict
and corruption into one of the peace of city of the world. He way of leadership and his
perseverance had him because influential in the world of politics, then he decided to run as the
President of the Philippines, then he won. He’s mission is to change the country of the
Philippines, eliminate drugs, crimes and corruption in his term. And to overcome the peace of
our country.
RESEARCH METHODLOGY

This chapter includes the methods and procedures employed in the study.

Research Design
This research is mainly concerned with the quantitative data, hence the researcher used
gathering data method in the study. The design, with the principal aim to determine and
describe the nature of a situation and its underlying causes as it existed at the time of the
study.

Research Instrument
The research instrument that used is Gathering data.

Gathering Data Procedures


1. Collecting the requirement information and document related to Perseverance.
2. Research about the Story that related to Perseverance.

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