Yield Quotes - Page 13

• When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

  Quintilian

  Hard Work, Defeat, Inevitable

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

  Mitt Romney

  Views, Hands, Years

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• The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

  Rumi

  Love, Spring, Autumn

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mutation, Materialism, Goods

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.69, Psychology Press

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• World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Age, Mutation

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.231, Classic Books Company

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• Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking, Eric, Said

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.214, Penguin

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

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Natural Instinct, Conformity

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.85, Book Tree

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• Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

  Nelson Mandela

  Animal, Political, Opponents

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• It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

  Steve Jobs

  Education, Art, Technology

  "Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple?" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. August 29, 2011.

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• There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Life, Character, Men

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• According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.

  David Bornstein

  Hands, Two, Entrepreneur

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.

  Ramez Naam

  Technology, Water, Littles

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• We are free to yield to truth.

  Horace

  Freedom

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• Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Suffering, Sides

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

  Jeff Cox

  Love, Work, Garden

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• The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Events

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Freedom, Assessment, Taxation

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• 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.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Views, History, Choices

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1964). “Vistas of history”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

  Leopold von Ranke

  Past, History, Judging

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• You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

  Matthew Quick

  World, May, This World

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• Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield to. Pain was simply a message, telling him which limbs he could still use to slaughter his enemies, how far he could still run, and what his chances were in the next battle.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Running, Pain, Enemy

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• Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Blessed, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Happiness, Struggle

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• '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.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Running, Morning

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Wicked, Experts, Doe

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