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Quotes About Yielding

It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. - You are never sure of a good impression being durable. Every body may sway it: let those who would be happy be firm.
~ Jane Austen
An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
~ Nicole Kidman
Oscar Wilde's advice, "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it
~ Timothy Ferriss
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
~ Oscar Wilde
El único modo de librarnos de la tentación es ceder a ella.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful
~ Oscar Wilde
El único camino para deshacerse de la tentación es ceder a ella
~ Oscar Wilde
By yielding you may obtain victory
~ Ovid
Remember the old proverb: "By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
~ Dale Carnegie
In life, stress happens when you resist... No matter what comes your way, if you take a rigid position, you experience pain. Never oppose force with force. Instead, absorb it and use it... Yielding can overcome even a superior force.
~ Dan Millman
It is a habit of mine always to give up to Miss Halcombe. I find, by experience, that it saves noise.
~ Wilkie Collins
I, I should have just done what you wanted me to in the first place
~ William Gaddis
My boredom also turned into melancholy, the melancholy that is so peculiar to us Little Russians, a manly yielding to the feeling of necessity. And my boredom was as necessary as sleep and death.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I no longer fight, I accept.
~ Jean Plaidy
Long ago she had learned that to seem to yield is always stronger than to show resistance, and to acknowledge a fault quickly is always to show an invincible rectitude.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you beat somebody at the thing they're best at, they're more likely to give way.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Ere need be shown, some men will act, As trees may fruit without a flower; To some you speak with no result, As seeds may die, and yield no grain.
~ Unknown
"Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them."
~ Honore de Balzac
She always said yes to whoever asked her out. It wouldn't have occurred to her to say no.
~ Liane Moriarty
Peace is about going deeper in God. It's about trusting him and yielding our worries and fears to the Holy Spirit - who is already at work inside us. It's about placing our focus heavenward instead of fixing our focus on our struggles
~ Unknown
Heider, whose book is based on Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, suggests that leaders practice becoming more open. "The wise leader is of service: receptive, yielding, following. The group member's vibration dominates and leads, while the leader follows. But soon it is the member's consciousness which is transformed, the member's vibration which is resolved.
~ Phil Jackson
Your will, not mine, O Lord.
~ David Jeremiah