Knowing how to yield is strength

“For years of faithfulness even as a child are not thrown away, but yield . . . a strength at last in times of trial.”

— Constance Fenimore Woolson

One of the biggest things that I took from playing Kunta Kinte was where his strength came from in knowing where he was from.

— Malachi Kirby

Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do…

— Karen Marie Moning

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

— Gail Tsukiyama

If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just…

— James O'Shaughnessy

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

— Horace

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

— Maggie Stiefvater

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will…

— Mark Akenside

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?…

— George Gissing

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

— Carl Jung

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched…

— Billy Graham

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall…

— Ellen G. White

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing…

— Polybius

Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the…

— J. I. Packer