Yield Quotes · Page 7

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

— Plato

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

— Oscar Wilde

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

— Carlos Slim

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

— Quintilian

Hell itself must yield to industry.

— Ben Jonson

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you…

— Khalil Gibran

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

— Thomas Love Peacock

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

— Hafez

The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high

— John Paulson

When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

— Jim George

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

— Otto von Bismarck

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood…

— Giuseppe Verdi

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that…

— Sophocles

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve…

— Fritz Sauckel

Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He…

— Teresa of Avila

Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something…

— Ingrid Michaelson

The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success…

— Eduard Bernstein

Do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. Rather be openhanded and freely lend him whatever he needs.

— Sharlene05

In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the…

— James Fenton

Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face.…

— Ray Dalio

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed:…

— Anonymous

Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but…

— Alfred de Musset

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man…

— Henri Bergson

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life…

— Abraham Kuyper

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that…

— Louis D. Brandeis

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and…

— Hannah Arendt

God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to…

— Harold S. Kushner

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

— Susan Griffin

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

— Herman Melville

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.

— William Shakespeare

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

— Samuel Johnson

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

— Hans Morgenthau

Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

— Carl Safina

“WILL YOU YIELD AND THIS AVOID, OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS DESTROY'D?”

— William Shakespeare

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

— David F. Houston

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

— Joseph Cook