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  • Life yields only to the conqueror. -- Dag Hammarskjold
  • Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. -- Louis D. Brandeis
  • The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. -- Thomas Paine
  • Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. -- Jack Kerouac
  • The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. -- Helen Keller
  • Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. -- Joseph Campbell
  • When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. -- Therese of Lisieux
  • To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results. -- Grenville Kleiser
  • 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
  • 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. -- Thomas Overbury
  • 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 yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. -- Dag Hammarskjold
  • I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. -- Lawrence Durrell
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. -- Bernard Baruch
  • 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
  • Yield all and trust all. -- Marie Angelique Arnauld
  • Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. -- Virgil
  • Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. -- Virgil
  • Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night! -- William Shakespeare
  • Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. -- Ovid
  • Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely. -- Virgil
  • Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. -- Aesop
  • Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct. -- Charlaine Harris
  • Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. -- William Shakespeare
  • Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. -- Jack Irons
  • "Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. -- Jack Irons
  • Let go of your past, and look to Mine, where I died for you. Yield to Me, and I will make you a true Knight of the Prince. -- Chuck Black
  • Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him. -- John Smith
  • Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. ...The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you. -- Laozi
  • Hell itself must yield to industry. -- Ben Jonson
  • Courage never to submit of yield. -- John Milton
  • The barrier has begun to yield. -- John Herschel
  • Sow good seeds for a good yield. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
  • We are free to yield to truth. -- Horace
  • Those that yield are not always weak -- Jacqueline Carey
  • Every seed planted, will yield bountiful harvest. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Let the soldier yield to the civilian. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. -- Pindar
  • When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield. -- Smith Wigglesworth
  • Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results. -- Creflo A. Dollar
  • Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace. -- Dalai Lama
  • Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield. -- Ami Ayalon
  • When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield. -- Peter Drucker
  • When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. -- Quintilian
  • To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. -- Madame de Stael
  • You win the victory when you yield to friends. -- Sophocles
  • The crude real will not by itself yield truth. -- Robert Bresson
  • I must yield to you, for you are irresistible. -- Plato
  • One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield. -- Victor Hugo
  • It is fitting for a great nation to yield. -- Laozi
  • Only a new seed will yield a new crop. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Infinite is the help man can yield to man. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • The wife should yield in all things to her lord -- Euripides
  • Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism. -- James Keller
  • If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. -- Winston Churchill
  • Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. -- B. C. Forbes
  • Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  • To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic. -- Hugo Rahner
  • And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills. -- Ramana Maharshi
  • Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife. -- John Milton
  • To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before! -- Edith M. Thomas
  • A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. -- Mark White
  • Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked. -- Ovid
  • Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit. -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run, -- Aldo Leopold
  • When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. -- Quintilian
  • Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic. -- Stephen Mansfield
  • Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness. -- Bryant McGill
  • When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. -- Gerald May
  • The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield. -- George Lillo
  • To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. -- Andre Gide
  • Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people. -- Clayton Christensen
  • Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets. -- Elsa Barker
  • Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact... -- John Burroughs
  • There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield. -- Lewis Howard Latimer
  • I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result -- Aitzaz Ahsan
  • I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born. -- William Shakespeare
  • You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. -- Anthony Hope
  • Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time. -- Thomas Love Peacock
  • We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. -- Henry Miller
  • All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  • Conformity"?the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. -- Mark Twain
  • Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. -- Cornel West
  • You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield -- Matthew Quick
  • Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • Git'er DoneThey beat their swords upon their shieldsTo no beast or man would they yield -- Muse
  • Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other. -- Henry Vaughan
  • Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. -- Voltaire
  • Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us! -- Eiji Yoshikawa
  • I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it. -- Edward Kennedy
  • I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed. -- Ariana Franklin
  • [Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
  • Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. -- Francis Bacon
  • When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him. -- Heidi Baker
  • ...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... -- Don McLean
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