Break Quote by Confucius

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one…

— Napoleon Hill

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and…

— Aesop

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When the storm comes, the formidable oak breaks easily, but the flowing willow bends and sways in the wind. When the storm's over, the…

— NZ Kaminsky

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

— Robert Jordan

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

— George Herbert

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

— Bertolt Brecht

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

— George Herbert

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

— Aesop