Hard Quote by Rabbi Akiva

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

— Ovid

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

— Ovid

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

— Plutarch

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

— Ovid

“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Persistence a drop of water hollows out the stone

— Anonymous

What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their…

— Eckhart Tolle

Dripping water hollows out a stone

— Ovid

That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny…

— Veronica Roth

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

— Lucretius

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid,…

— Anonymous

“Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong.”

— Lao-tzu