Yield Quotes

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. (Plutarch)
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them. View quote
Virgil
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
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. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. View quote
Jack Kerouac
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. View quote
Henry James
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)
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. View quote
Helen Keller
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision And yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
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. View quote
Winston Churchill
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. View quote
Thomas Paine
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 the end Of a love or a season. View quote
Robert Frost
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. View quote
Anne Rice
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. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at... (Mitch Hedberg)
The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. View quote
Herbert Read
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts. View quote
Vitruvius
You win the victory when you yield to friends. View quote
Sophocles
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. View quote
Honoré de Balzac