The Stonecutter

“When nothing seems to help I go back and look at the stonecutter 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 that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” Jacob A. Riis.

How often, when we’re doing something, do we want to give up?

You’re not seeing the results you wanted. You failed. You’ve been doing something for years and just can’t seem to break through.

When it’s easy to give up or no clear end in sight.

Keep going.

In those moments, remember the story of the stonecutter.

What’s something that you need to keep going on?