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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. (Quote by - Louis Brandeis)

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)

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