(411 quotes found)
“Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.”
Charles Hole
“There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, / And the ricks stand grey to the sun, / Singing: - `Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover, / And your English summer's done'.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Valor that parleys is near yielding.”
George Herbert
“WITHOUT the flowers, the plant yields no fruit. Without the emerging fruit, ripeness cannot happen.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize”
Marcus Aurelius
“BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”
Ambrose Bierce
“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.”
Bible
“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
“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.”
Lao Tzu
