Yield Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Funny, Law Students, Lawyer

  "Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision".

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• 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

  Cutting, Loss, Average

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• The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Truth, Media Control, History

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• Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure

  Lettie Cowman

  Christian, Records, Anticipation

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• Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Hate, Reflection

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

  Quintilian

  Winning, Advantage

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• 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

  Anxiety, Praying, Tension

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• Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

  Ovid

  Dating, Romance, Delight

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• 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

  Giving, Accepting, Stolen

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Mind, Plant, Results

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

  Virgil

  Integrity, Evil, Honor

  "Aeneid" by Virgil, Book VI, 29-19 BC.

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• The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Reality, Logic, Should

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• 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

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Night

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Success, Peace, Lying

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• Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face. Badmouthing people behind their backs shows a serious lack of integrity and is counterproductive. It doesn't yield any beneficial change, and it subverts both the people you are badmouthing and the environment as a whole.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Integrity, People

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• Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Men, May

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

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• Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

  Robert E. Lee

  Courage, Army, Virginia

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• I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

  Paul Krugman

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Ask the Author Live: Larissa MacFarquhar with Paul Krugman". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2010.

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• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Flower, Justice

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• Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

  Creflo A. Dollar

  Jesus, Christ, Instruction

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• It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.

  Indira Gandhi

  Philosophy, Party, Views

  Indira Gandhi (1977). “Education, individual, and society: selected addresses”

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• There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Waiting, Grace

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2010

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• Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

  Saint Augustine

  Bible, Christian, Scripture

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• Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

  Publilius Syrus

  Venus, Seduction, Caress

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