Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means 'hold on,' yellow means 'go ahead,' and red means, 'where the hell did you get that banana at?'
No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You with the unpaid bill, Despair, You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, I will pay you in the grave, Death will listen to your stave.
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
Grammar is what gives sense to language. . . . sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.
It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.
Is there a rarer being, Is there a fairer sphere Where the strong are not unseeing, And the harvests are not sere; Where, ere the seasons dwindle They yield their due return; Where the lamps of knowledge kindle While the flames of youth still burn?
The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.
At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland!