| "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." »Oscar Wilde |
| "When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield." »Quintilian |
| "When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield." »Quintilian |
| "yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly." »Virgil |
| "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 |
| "Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world." »Helen Keller |
| "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 |
| "Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator." »Cicero |
| "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." »Oscar Wilde |
| "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 |
| "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman |
| "A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "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 at the end Of a love or a season." »Robert Frost |
| "What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust." »Vicomte de Valmont |
| "Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood-bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own." »Cornelius Stam |
| "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods." »The Dhammapada |
| "'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 |
| "Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters." »B. F. Skinner |
| "We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." »Jimmy Carter |
| "In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period" »Antonio Gramsci |
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