Yield Quotes
688 quotes by 513 authors
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Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!
— Eiji Yoshikawa
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The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great…
— David F. Houston
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And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will…
— Joseph Glanvill
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Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
— Joseph Glanvill
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For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.
— Robert Browning
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Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly…
— B. C. Forbes
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
— F. H. Bradley
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The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is…
— Horace Mann
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Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always…
— Antoine-Henri Jomini
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None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look…
— Charlotte Mason
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The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone…
— Niles Eldredge
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Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues…
— Bruce Mau
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We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive…
— Theodore Epp
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
— Sophocles
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour
— Thomas Jefferson
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...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield...
— Don McLean
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So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These Yield Quotes
513 authors contributed a total of 688 Yield Quotes, led by these top contributors: