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Quotes About Endurance

A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.
~ Kiran Bantawa, "Bare Trees"
It's only Tuesday and I'm already 95% done with this week.
~ Internet meme
Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.
~ Author Unknown
Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot; Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not.
~ Cardiff Camera Club, c.1921
Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.
~ Montenegrin proverb
Paper endures everything.
~ French proverb
Paper is patient.
~ German proverb
Exercise! — because zombies will eat the slow ones first.
~ Internet meme
Been down so long, down don't worry me.
~ African-American saying
Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
~ William Faulkner
Hope is the physician of each misery.
~ Irish proverb
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
~ Author Unknown
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry, spiritual by what we can bear.
~ Author Unknown
If you cain't bear no crosses, you cain't wear no crown.
~ African-American saying
The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.
~ African Proverb
Perseverance is everything.
~ Yoruba Proverb
Gardening is simply a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it
~ Author unknown, 1940s
You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.
~ Author Unknown
[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.
~ Jarod Kintz, Goodreads bio
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!
~ Author unknown, 1920s
When you get to your wits' end, you will find that God lives there.
~ Author Unknown
We won't break, Mary. We look very small, but the reed can carry weight.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1862
It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.
~ William Faulkner
You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug.
~ Author Unknown