Quotes About Yielding

The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."

Small to greater matters must give way.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

there is nothing to take over if you are not putting up any resistance.

True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

the next time someone pushes you and you find yourself starting to react, try this: Do not resist or fight back, but yield

Women in love made sacrifices. That was simply what they did. He'd watched the world over the span of his life, and for the great majority of it, women had yielded to the men they desired. Surely the last fifty years had been an anomaly.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

One of the major regrets of life, for most people, is their yielding to the wishes of others, instead of doing what their heart desired most. Always dare to respect yourself first before anyone else, in your speech as much as in your actions. Self-respect is the precursor to Success.

She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that I've given it back.

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.

Surrender the body and its members, physical faculties, property, reputation, office, honours, children, siblings – repudiate them all.

She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

there was a certain comfort in surrender.

Attaining the goal of a full, happy life, ripe with experiences well-used, means that each of us will become a paradox—free, yet constrained by necessity; shrewd, yet innocent; open to others, yet self-reliant; strong, yet able to yield; centered on the highest values, yet able to accept imperfection; realistic about the suffering existence imposes on us, yet full of gratitude for life as it is.

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.