Yield Quotes

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

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

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

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.

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.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

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

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?