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"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." »Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." »Oscar Wilde
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." »Oscar Wilde
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"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield." »Quintilian
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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield." »Quintilian
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." »Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses (poem)
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"yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly." »Virgil
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"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
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"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
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"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, Lives
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"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world." »Helen Keller
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"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
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"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains." »Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
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"Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive may always find him that will lend himself to be deceived." »Machiavelli
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"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"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
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"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator." »Cicero
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"Ere need be shown, some men will act, As trees may fruit without a flower; To some you speak with no result, As seeds may die, and yield no grain." »Hindu Poetess
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Limited expectations yield only limited results." »Susan Laurson Willig
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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
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"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
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