Yield Quotes
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.) (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. (Quote by - St. Therese of Lisieux)
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results. (Quote by - Grenville Kleiser)
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. (Quote by - Elizabeth II)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. (Quote by - Quintilian)
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. (Quote by - Virgil)
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. (Quote by - Quintilian)
Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin; Each victory will help you some other to win. (Quote by - H R Palmer)
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. (Quote by - Jack Kerouac)
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. (Quote by - Cicero)
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. (Quote by - Douglas Macarthur)
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. (Quote by - William Ames)
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. (Quote by - F. H. Bradley)
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done. (Quote by - Katharine Whitehorn)
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield. (Quote by - Anne Hutchinson)
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. (Quote by - Sitting Bull)
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. (Quote by - Muhammed Iqbal)
It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. (Quote by - Sidney Altman)
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. (Quote by - Confucius)
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. (Quote by - Gary Becker)
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. (Quote by - Peter Straub)
The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. (Quote by - Mark White)
It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return. (Quote by - Alex Lowe)
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. (Quote by - Alexandra Paul)
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. (Quote by - Robert Grosseteste)
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. (Quote by - Thomas Brooks)
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. (Quote by - James L. Buckley)
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. (Quote by - Barbara Hepworth)
