Yielding Quotes
127 quotes by 97 authors
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We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will…
— Antonin Sertillanges
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If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
— Beryl Markham
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Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
— Rick Riordan
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone…
— Gregory Maguire
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[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop…
— Joseph Campbell
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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,…
— Jane Austen
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If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this…
— William Shakespeare
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The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
— Joseph Campbell
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Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in…
— Robertson Davies
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The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
— Sheri S. Tepper
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The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself:…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for…
— Jane Hirshfield
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optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path…
— Jane Smiley
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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
— Dale Carnegie
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Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's…
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because…
— Laozi
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Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft,…
— Laozi
Who Wrote These Yielding Quotes
97 authors contributed a total of 127 Yielding Quotes, led by these top contributors: