Yields Quotes

Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

We are free to yield to truth.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence;

and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance.

It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger;

give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.

Man's nature is not essentially evil.

Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Control and domination do yield some results, but are not the tools of the master-crafters who are fueled by freedom and passion.

The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations.

It is raising up a monied aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding.

The historian should be fearless and incorruptible;

a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poet says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, but should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writings no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning.

For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

'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 fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future.

Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness.

A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.