Yield Quotes

• Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • God
  • Power
  • Peace

• Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Judge
  • Poets
  • Yield

• Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Falsehood
  • Yield
  • Quotations

• I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

  

  Plato
  • Yield
  • Irresistible

• I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Time
  • Yield
  • Slow Down

• A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Children
  • Connection

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

  

  Anthony Hope
  • Wells
  • Temptation
  • Absurd

• Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Direction
  • Studied
  • Yield

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

  

  Nancy Dunnan
  • High
  • Risk
  • Fool

• One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Woman
  • Yield
  • Magnanimities

• A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Country
  • Serve
  • Yield

• There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

  

  Francis Drake
  • Matter
  • Glory
  • Finished

• The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Enemy
  • Victory
  • Yield

• For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Happiness
  • Author

• The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

  

  William Ames
  • Firsts
  • Concern
  • Yield

• Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Criticism
  • Protest
  • Yield

• The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

  

  Paul D. Boyer
  • Effort
  • Research
  • Diamond

• The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.

  

  Nuno Oliveira
  • Hands
  • Resist
  • Yield

• The Universe yields to me when I ask.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Asks
  • Yield

• Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Yield
  • Suggests

• The wife should yield in all things to her lord.

  

  Euripides
  • Wife
  • Lord
  • Yield

• As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Charity
  • Stone

• DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Father
  • Sweet
  • Certain

• Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Yield

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