Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

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

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

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

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

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.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Simply calling your credit card issuer and asking them to lower your interest rate may yield immediate savings.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

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

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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