Quotes About Endurance

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

The tree does not die, it waits.

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

The rigid tree will be felled.

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.