Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure. They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.
Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
