Yield Quotes

688 quotes by 513 authors

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the… — Lafcadio Hearn
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a… — Miguel de Cervantes
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not… — Samuel Johnson
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. — Charles Caleb Colton
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they… — George Crabbe
I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I… — Stonewall Jackson
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort. — Leonardo da Vinci
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just… — Boyd K. Packer
All is change; all yields its place and goes. — Euripides
Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping… — John Donne
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who… — H. L. Mencken
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou… — John Owen
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. — Christian Nestell Bovee
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it… — John Marshall

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