Quotes About Not Yielding

#1. Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Socrates

#3. If my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine?

Osamu Dazai

#4. A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

Thomas Browne

#5. I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Wole Soyinka

#6. Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.

Franz Kafka

#7. It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

Neal A. Maxwell

#8. I, too, have my code. As long as I love you, your will must be my will. If you believe that yielding to me would be weakness, that accepting my love would destroy you, I will not touch you. You must come to me with the whole of your will, or not at all.

Robert Shea

#9. Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Robert Breault

#10. It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

Charles Dickens

#11. I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime the specter of politicians picking targets and ruling out offensive measures in the absurd hope that the enemy would respond to our restraint by yielding to our demands.

John McCain

#12. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.

Bette Davis

#13. The first step into the realm of giving is ... not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.

Lilias Trotter

#14. The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.

George MacDonald

#15. Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

Honore De Balzac

#16. Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

Aldo Leopold

#17. A secret for releasing struggles in life is to learn to yield. Yielding does not mean giving in or giving up. It just means moving with the flow of the current, which makes everything easier and more fluid.

Peggy Sealfon

#18. If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.

Gavin Douglas

#19. The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Joseph Campbell

#20. If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Anonymous

#21. A cautious man would've backed off. Not me. Yielding would basically have told him he'd won. I was tougher and I'd prove it. If it cost me a limb, screw it.

Veronica Rossi

#22. 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

#23. The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#24. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

Mary Beth Chapman

#25. Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

Esther Hicks

#26. Death means you stop being. You must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death.

Oswald Chambers

#27. Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

Billy Graham

#28. I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now.

Jim Butcher

#29. Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Rick Riordan

#30. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

Jane Austen

#31. [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Joseph Campbell

#32. Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Jane Swisshelm

#33. Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

Alexander McCall Smith

#34. Of all things let us avoid the false refuge of a weary collapse, a hopeless yielding to things as they are. It is the life in us that is discontented: we need more of what is discontented, not more of the cause of its discontent.

George MacDonald

#35. We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

Saint Francis De Sales

#36. A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#37. Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

John Buchanan Robinson

#38. True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude - the vehicle for absolute grace.

Karen Maezen Miller

#39. With a stranger he felt a renewal of hope because they could not say that he had not done what he had promised, and yielding to his charm would give him a fresh start -

Virginia Woolf

#40. The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.

Pope Benedict XVI