Yielding Quotes

127 Yielding quotes by 97 unique authors

Yielding, like ice about to melt. — Laozi
Yielding is the manner of the Way. — Laozi
Yielding is the way of the Tao. — Laozi
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! — John Buchanan Robinson
The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is… — Roberto Assagioli
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes… — Laozi
A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is… — Laozi
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life. — Laozi
Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one… — Jack Hyles
The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. — Unknown Author
Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising… — Laozi
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory… — George MacDonald
Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic.… — Amy Gerstler
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;… — Simone de Beauvoir
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life. — Oswald Chambers
The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems. — Ann Voskamp
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. — Laozi
Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. — Eckhart Tolle
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the… — Amy Carmichael
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. — Dean Acheson
Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, — Pope Francis

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