Quotes about Perseverance
The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day
— Corrie Ten Boom
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
— St. John Chrysostom
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
— Martin Luther
Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.
— Alan Redpath
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
— Cicero
Even a broken tree can bear fruit
— Rick Warren
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
— Samuel Rutherford
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
— Erica Jong
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
— Mark Twain
A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break.
— Matshona Dhliwayo