"Victory - strive for victory at all costs"

- First of all, you must have firm perseverance

In May 1940, in Nazi Germany in Europe As the "Blitzkrieg" on the mainland was victorious, British Prime Minister Chamberlain, who had long implemented the "appeasement" policy, was forced to step down. Churchill, who had always advocated resolute resistance to German aggression, succeeded him as the new prime minister. On May 13, Churchill attended the House of Commons meeting for the first time as Prime Minister. At the meeting, he delivered a brief inauguration speech and announced the policies of the new government, including such a passionate quote:

"You ask: What is our policy? I say: Our policy is to conduct war on sea, on land and in the air with all the power and all the force that God can give us; the same in the evil and tragic human sin We have never seen a more vicious war. This is our policy. You ask: What is our purpose? I can answer in one word: Victory - win at any cost, no matter how terrible it is. Strive for victory; no matter how long and difficult the road is, we must strive for victory; because without victory, we cannot survive."

This speech expresses Churchill's bravery and unyielding determination to fight to the death in the face of the power of Nazi Germany. The determination to win the anti-fascist war greatly inspired the British people in adversity to have the courage to win the war!

Ostrovsky was physically disabled and strong-willed

— —Perseverance is an iron will

Ostrovsky is a writer from the former Soviet Union. The book "How Steel Was Tempered" that people are rushing to buy was written by him. But, do you believe it? This author is actually a disabled person who is blind and paralyzed.

When Ostrovsky was 14 years old, he participated in the revolutionary activities of the reactionary rule of Tsarist Russia. He fought hard on the battlefield and made many military exploits. Unfortunately, at the age of 24, he became blind and paralyzed. How unfair fate was to him. However, Ostrovsky did not bow to fate. He was determined to use his pen as a weapon to record his fighting life to inspire future generations. So, he used his hospital bed as a battlefield and wrote rapidly day and night. With his great perseverance and tenacious fighting spirit, he overcame many difficulties and finally wrote the book "Born of the Storm" in 1927. Unfortunately, the original manuscript was lost in the mail. What a huge blow this was to him! However, he did not lose courage because of this, but decided to start from scratch and write again. At this time, his eyes were completely blind, and only his elbows could move his hands. After three years of hard work, he finally wrote the autobiographical novel "How Steel Was Tempered" which has had a wide impact.

"Ye Qiaobo is amazing!"

- Perseverance is a great quality

Ye Qiaobo, a skater who was once known as the "World Women's 5000m", When I participated in a competition in Japan in April 1993, I suffered from unbearable knee pain. After seeing her condition, a Japanese orthopedic expert did not believe that she had been training and warned her: "Don't joke with your life. If you don't have surgery, just go home!" Three days later, Ye Qiaobo won the gold medal The all-around champion. The Japanese expert said with tears: "Ye Qiaobo is amazing! In her, I see something worthy of learning from the younger generation of China." In August of the same year, Ye Qiaobo had an operation in a Swedish hospital, and the doctor took out 5 A piece of free bone fragment. When the professor learned that she won the world championship under such circumstances, he couldn't help but admired: "China's Qiaobo is amazing! She is the pride of China." She also took the initiative to take a photo with Ye Qiaobo.

Zhu Jianhua won the gold medal despite injury

- Strong perseverance creates brilliance

Zhu Jianhua is a famous high jumper of our country. In 1975, when he was 12 years old, he participated in the Shanghai Olympics When he competed in the city's standard competition, he jumped to a new height. When he stood up from the sponge, the coach immediately walked up to him and asked him to take off his shoes. He found a ball of bright red blood flowing from his socks and a wound as big as a grain of rice under his feet. The coach asked him when he was injured? Xiao Zhu did not answer. Later, he asked his father to accompany him to a nearby bathroom and asked a pedicurist to pick out a wooden thorn that was two to three millimeters long and as thick as a grain of rice from the sole of his foot. You can imagine how much willpower it takes to run and jump with this foot. Later, when Zhu Jianhua participated in the xx World High School Games in Italy, he sprained his ankle again. Every time he tried to jump, the pain was as painful as heartache. However, he insisted on participating in the competition. After the competition, his ankle was swollen like a steamed bun. Just as big. In this way, he reluctantly won a gold medal for his motherland.

Qin Dahe walks across the Antarctic continent

——Strong perseverance can overcome all difficulties

On March 3, 1990, the international expedition across the Antarctic continent After an arduous journey, the team finally completed the feat of crossing the Antarctic continent on foot for the first time in human history. Qin Dahe, as a representative of the Chinese people, has contributed to the Antarctic scientific expedition with his outstanding actions, adding luster to the flag of the Republic of China. Antarctica is a world of blizzards. Qin Dahe and other expedition team members have to walk in the ice and snow for 10 hours every day.

At the end of the day, I was exhausted, and the tent where I slept was also very cold. When I woke up in the morning, 10 of my fingers were too cold to straighten. In such a harsh environment, Qin Dahe persisted in completing the task of collecting ice and snow samples assigned to him by the expedition team. Once, to collect samples, he worked in a snow pit for seven or eight hours. After the work, his whole body felt weak and he had a high fever that night. But the next day, he still gritted his teeth and hit the road with his teammates. In more than seven months, he lost 13 kilograms in weight. He overcame various difficulties and completed the inspection mission with perseverance.

Tan Qian persists in writing books

- Perseverance can make great achievements

During the Ming Dynasty, Tan Qian, a native of Haining, Zhejiang, was a poor scholar. I started compiling history at the age of 29. Because I couldn't afford books, I asked people everywhere to borrow books and copy them. Sometimes in order to look up some information, I would travel more than a hundred miles with my own dry food. He worked hard for 27 years, changed the manuscript six times, and finally wrote a masterpiece. Tan Qian was 56 years old at this time. But one night, the manuscript was stolen. Tan Qian cried sadly. Others thought he would never recover, but unexpectedly he rolled up his sleeves and started working again the next day. It took him another ten years to finally write the second manuscript, which was later published as "Guoyan". At this time, Tan Qian was already gray-haired and old. He happily said to people: "I will die with my eyes closed!"

Boxing Champion Ali's iron will

——No matter what, he must have the upper hand mentally

The 1970s was an era when heavyweight boxing heroes emerged in large numbers in the world. On September 30, 1975, boxing champion Ali, who was already 33 years old and had not been in the boxing ring for 4 years, had a third contest with Frazier, another boxing champion (one win and one loss in the first two times).

By the time the 14th round progressed, Ali was exhausted and on the verge of collapse. He had almost no energy left to face the 15th round. However, he held on for dear life and refused to give up. He knew in his heart that the other party was the same as himself. At this point in the competition, it was not so much a competition of strength, but a competition of perseverance, to see who could persist longer than the other party. He knew that if he could mentally overwhelm the opponent at this time, he might win. So he tried his best to maintain a resolute expression and an aura of never giving up. His eyes were like lightning, which made Frazier shudder, thinking that Ali still had physical strength.

Sure enough, Frazier surrendered and accepted the defeat. The referee immediately raised Ali's arm and declared Ali the winner. At this time, Ali, who had retained the title of boxing champion, had not even reached the center of the stage when his eyes darkened and his legs were weak and he knelt on the ground. Seeing this scene, Frazier felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He regretted it so much that he would regret it for the rest of his life.

The strong Balzac

- Firm perseverance produces fruitful results

The French writer Balzac passed away on August 21, 1850. At his funeral, Hugo's eulogy included the following words: "Among the great figures, Balzac is the greatest; among the outstanding figures, Balzac is the outstanding one. ... But Sigh! This strong philosopher, thinker, poet, and genius writer who never stops fighting, among us, lived a rough life and encountered the bad experiences and misfortunes that all great men of any era have encountered. Now, he is gone. He has emerged from the turmoil and pain." Balzac had a rough life. He lacked maternal love when he was young, and his family and mother were indifferent to him. He seemed to be a superfluous person in the family. Balzac later recalled this period of life and said angrily: "I have never had a mother, and I have never known what maternal love is." "I experienced the most terrible childhood in human destiny." Growing up. In the future, he determined to engage in humble literary creation and become a "king of literature." Starting in the summer of 1819, he spent all day writing at his desk in an attic. The loft is within easy reach. His residence is simple and shabby, hot in summer and freezing in winter. He had no day, no night, no entertainment, and was always writing. As a result, he was constantly deceived in the process of dealing with booksellers, resulting in heavy debts. Debts amounted to 100,000 francs. He moved six times to avoid debts. He said to his friends: "I often worry about a little bread, candles and paper. Creditors persecute me like a rabbit. I often run around like a rabbit."

Balzac, who wrote diligently throughout his life, often Work continuously for 18 hours. In less than 20 years, he created 91 novels. He had a wide influence in the world, but he spent his life in poverty and pain. He once summed up himself in one sentence: "A lifetime of labor is spent in pain and poverty, often not understood by others."

Beethoven grabbed the throat of fate

——Courage Challenging fate, Fang showed his perseverance

Beethoven's life can be said to be an epic and heroic legend. A difficult childhood, failed love, illness, and poverty all devastated this giant, but these were just the prelude to tragedy. In 1796, Beethoven's hearing began to weaken, and he was only 26 years old that year! Deafness, for ordinary people, means the death of a part of the world, but for musicians, it means the death of the entire world!

In Faced with such a blow, Beethoven struggled alone in pain and was almost defeated several times.

However, the monstrous flood never extinguished the flame of his life, and he was unwilling to surrender to fate! Although fate tried to tease this genius who transcended time and space, Beethoven used his own efforts to ruthlessly mock fate: Beethoven was completely In the years when he was deaf, he created the greatest masterpiece in his life! An unfortunate man, a man tortured by poverty, disability, and loneliness. The world gave him pain, but he created joy to give to the world! This - is The immortality of giants! When we feel the heroism of the "hero", listen to the knocking of "destiny", and sing the joy in the chorus of the "Ninth Symphony", don't forget that this is Beethoven fighting against the unfortunate fate. A magnificent chapter composed!

The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains

- If you have perseverance, you are not afraid of any difficulties and obstacles

The story of "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains" is about the 90-year-old Foolish Old Man of Beishan. , there is a mountain in front of his house, and it is very inconvenient to get in and out. So I discussed with my family that we should level the mountains and make way for the road all the way to the south of Henan and to the north of the Han River.

The family responded. Yu Gong then led his descendants to dig mountains and stones every day. Hequ Zhisou smiled and tried to dissuade him: "You are too unwise. At your age, you can't even pull out the grass and trees on the mountain, let alone the earth and rocks?" Yu Gong retorted: "I will still be alive after I die. Sons, sons have grandsons, and grandsons have descendants. There are endless descendants, but the mountain will not grow any higher, so why can't it be dug level?" Zhisou had nothing to say. The mountain god learned about it and reported it to the Emperor of Heaven. The Emperor felt his sincerity and ordered the mountain god to carry the mountain away. From then on, there were no mountains blocking Yu Gong's house.

The story shows that as long as you have a strong will and perseverance, you are not afraid of any difficulties and obstacles.

Gao Zecheng wrote "The Story of Pipa"

- Perseverance must stand the test of time

In order to write "The Story of Pipa", Gao Zecheng, a playwright of the Yuan Dynasty, resigned and returned home , living in seclusion in Lishe, Ningbo. In order to make the play he wrote conform to the rhythm and be easy to sing, he sang while writing. Every time I write a song, I have to hold the desk with my right hand, step on the floor with my left foot to beat the time, and chant repeatedly. If I find something that is out of tune or difficult to pronounce, I immediately stop and revise it, and repeat it many times until I am satisfied. As time goes by, my mouth becomes dry and my voice becomes hoarse. Others say he is not worthy, but he still does not slack off. Three years later, the finger marks on several cases were more than an inch deep where the hand was patted, and where the left foot was patted, the floor was penetrated and a hole appeared. But "Pipa Ji", known as the "ancestor of Southern Opera", was finally written. Gao Zecheng became famous in one fell swoop and became a famous playwright.

A perseverant boy

- Perseverance can create miracles

In a fire, a little boy was seriously injured. Although the hospital tried its best to rescue him, he escaped His life was in danger, but he still had no feeling in his lower body. The doctor quietly told his mother that the child would have to rely on a wheelchair from now on.

One day, the weather was very sunny, and his mother pushed him to the yard to breathe fresh air, and then she left because of something. A strong impulse surged from the boy's heart: I must stand up! He pushed the wheelchair away with all his strength, then dragged his weak legs and crawled on the grass with his elbows. Step by step, he finally climbed to the fence. By the wall. Then, he used all his strength to grab the fence and stood up, and tried to pull on the fence to walk. After walking a few steps, sweat rolled down his forehead. He stopped to take a breath, gritted his teeth and dragged his legs to start again, until he reached the end of the fence.

In this way, every day the boy had to hold on to the fence wall to practice walking. But day after day passed, and he still had no feeling in his legs. He was unwilling to live a life trapped in a wheelchair. He clenched his fists and told himself that in the days to come, he must rely on his own legs to walk. Finally, one morning, when he was dragging his weak legs to hold the fence while walking again, a heartbreaking pain came from his lower body. At that moment, he was stunned. He walked over and over again, enjoying the heart-wrenching pain that others avoided.

Since then, the boy's body has recovered quickly. First, I was able to stand up slowly and walk a few steps while holding on to the fence. Gradually, he was able to walk independently, and finally one day, he actually started running in the yard. From then on, his life was no different from that of an ordinary boy. By the time he was in college, he was selected for the track and field team.

He is Dr. Glenn Conhanning, who once ran the best results in the world.

Hawking who tells the story of the universe

——Strong perseverance can create miracles

Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford on January 8, 1942. That day It happened to be three hundred years after Galileo's death.

When he was thirteen or fourteen years old, Hawking had made up his mind to engage in research in physics and astronomy. At the age of seventeen, he received a scholarship in natural sciences and successfully entered Oxford University. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, he transferred to Cambridge University to study for a doctorate in cosmology. He soon discovered he had Lou Gehrig's disease, which causes muscle wasting. Because the doctors were helpless about the disease, he initially planned to give up his ideal of doing research. However, later the deterioration of the disease slowed down, and he regained his mood, overcome all difficulties, stood up from the setback, and faced this misfortune bravely. Continue your research.

In the 1970s, he and Penrose proved the singularity theorem, and both won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1988.

In the 1980s, he began to study quantum cosmology. At this time, he already had problems with his mobility. Later, he underwent tracheal surgery due to pneumonia, which made him unable to speak again. Now he is paralyzed and relies on an electric wheelchair to replace his legs. Not only does he need the help of computers and language synthesizers to speak and write, but even for reading, he has to have someone spread out each page of paper for him on the table and let him drive the wheelchair page by page. Go and see.

Hawking devoted his life to the research of theoretical physics and is known as one of the most outstanding scientists today. Although everyone thinks he is very unfortunate, his scientific achievements were achieved after his illness. With his perseverance and unyielding will, he defeated the disease, created a miracle, and proved that disability is not an obstacle to success. His love for life and enthusiasm for scientific research are worth learning from the younger generation.

Pianist who insists on practicing every day

——The secret of maintaining the status of a master

Polish pianist Paderewski once gave an interview to a magazine, Talk about his success.

He said: "I think that only through continuous practice can we strive for excellence and practice makes perfect." The reporter said: "With your master-level level, it stands to reason that you don't need to practice every day!" The pianist said: "If I If I don't practice the piano for one day, I will notice the difference; if I don't practice the piano for two days, the music critics will notice the difference; if I don't practice the piano for three days, even the audience will notice the difference, and only then will they rush to remedy it. It was too late, so I kept practicing every day.

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