(109 quotes found)
“Better bend than break”
Scottish Proverb
“The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'”
The Talmud
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
Albert Camus
“What doesn’t bend breaks.”
Ani Difranco
“It's better to bend than to break”
Proverb
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
Victor Hugo
“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier”
Sir Walter Scott
“He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.”
Walter Savage Landor
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