These yield quotes will inspire you. Yield produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product) or give way to arguments, demands, or pressure.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging yield quotes, yield sayings, and yield proverbs.
Inspirational Yield Quotes
- “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.” ~ Helen Keller
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“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.” ~ Joseph Addison
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“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
- “Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “God never forces a person’s will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being ‘united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death’ (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender–then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.” ~ Oswald Chambers
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“Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.” ~ Therese of Lisieux
- “Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.” ~ Amy Carmichael
- “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.” ~ Henry James
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“When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.” ~ Ovid
- “When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.” ~ Quintilian
- “The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis
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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
- “The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “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
- “Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.” ~ Virgil
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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?” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “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
- “Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“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.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
- “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
- “Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure” ~ Lettie Cowman
- “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
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“Life yields only to the conqueror.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.” ~ Creflo A. Dollar
- “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
- “Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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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
- “My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.” ~ Bill Johnson
- “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
- “Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.” ~ Hubert Van Zeller
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“You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.” ~ Sophocles
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Spend the most time with your best people. … Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. … Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. … You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.” ~ Marcus Buckingham
- “If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.” ~ Anne Hutchinson
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“Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.” ~ Carlos Slim
- “One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.” ~ Barbara Hepworth
- “Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again… Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.” ~ Barbara Hepworth
- “My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won’t yield to computation.” ~ Poul Anderson
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“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.” ~ Jean-Baptiste Say
- “Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.” ~ John Maynard Keynes
- “By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.” ~ James Dobson
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“Infinite is the help man can yield to man.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.” ~ John Owen
- “This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord’s richer benison” ~ Charles Spurgeon
