96 Quotes About Yield

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

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

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