Yield Quotes

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

  Nancy Dunnan

  Risk, Fool, Higher

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• 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.

  Arnold Bennett

  Past, People, Progress

  Arnold Bennett, Edward Knoblock, Alan Alexander Milne, Novel Coward, Robert Cedric Sherriff (1951). “Modern Plays ...”

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  "How to Help Someone Who is Depressed, or Suicidal : Practical Suggestions from a Survivor". Book by John Cook, 1993.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Temptation, Way, Gray

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 53

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

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Freedom, Patriotic

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2015). “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Inspirational, Peace, Past

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wings, May, Way

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Perseverance, Perserverance, Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Attitude, Military

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Oneness, Waiting

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Temptation

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Achievement, Heroic

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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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 stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Hippie, Hard Times

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• 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.

  Henry James

  Country, Writing, Civilization

  Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 Jan. 1871

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Imagination

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

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• Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life, Peace, War

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.17, Turner Publishing Company

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• Life yields only to the conqueror.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Muscles, Conqueror

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Warrior, Giving, Arms

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• If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Talking, People, Political

  Autobiography (1821)

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• Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Political

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