Yielding Quotes
127 Yielding quotes by 97 unique authors
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Yielding, like ice about to melt.
— Laozi
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Yielding is the manner of the Way.
— Laozi
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Yielding is the way of the Tao.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
— Oswald Chambers
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
— Ann Voskamp
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Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
— Laozi
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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
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Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.
— Eckhart Tolle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,
— Pope Francis
Who Wrote These Yielding Quotes
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