Adversity Quote by Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens…

— Albert Schweitzer

“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

“The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.”

— Panache Desai

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.

— George Herbert

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

— Frank Herbert

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it -…

— Pink

“When necessary bend like a willow, when necessary stand unbending like an oak.”

— K. Natwar Singh

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

— Bruce Lee

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

— Ann Brashares

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

“The weeping willows, on the other hand, are evocative of death. They are a little contrived, a little exaggerated, still green in the middle…

— Joseph Roth