Quotessence
Home / Topics / Yes And No Quotes

Yes And No Quotes

Browse 42 quotes about Yes And No.

Yes And No Quotes

“I mean No is power. No says, "I'm in charge." Think about how many times you've said yes in the past year, and how many times you would've liked to have said no instead. Maybe being able to say no is the one thing that keeps us sane. Some people go through their whole lives saying yes over and over again--yes to things they don't want to do but feel obliged to; yes to things that allow other people to take advantage of them, just because that's the way things are, the way things have always been. Some people need to learn how to say no. Because every time they say yes, they say no to themselves.”

PowerThoughtsObligationIntrospectionYes And No
Book:Yes Man
Create image

“If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though you shall know your ‘had I know’ in the end.”

Life LessonsPityRemorseCourage QuotesRegretsCourage To Be OneselfYes And NoKnowing What You WantHad I KnowLearning To Say NoStaying AssertiveCourage To Say No
Author:Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Create image

“Dad believes that negative criticism is inherently more truthful and constructive than positive criticism. He also believes that every "No" spoken gives a future "Yes" more power and credibility. He's a master at finding the tone, pitch, and demeanor to say "Yes" so that it obviously means a "No." It's an art form. There are a million dead "No"s in that monstrous, distant, future "Yes." Even though it's a million miles away, I can always see it from where I am.”

DadCriticismDaddyNoYesConstructive CriticismYes And NoNegative CriticismPositive CriticismFuture Yes Power
Book:Doctors
Create image

“I have always said 'yes' because it never occurred to me that I could not do anything I set out to do. It is an attitude I endorse completely, although it does matter to whom and to what one says 'yes'--and the manner in which the monosyllable is spoken. You can always say 'yes' and change your mind afterward to 'no,' but 'no' once spoken is irrevocable. The irrevocable, in the theatre [sic] as elsewhere, is to be sternly resisted.”

TheaterYes And NoIrrevocability
Author:Clifton Webb
Create image

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

ThinkingWorldLongArtIdeasMomentsBigsLightEarthSpiritArtistGivenDarkOppositesInnocenceThat MomentAllowingWithin YouShakingLight And DarkSaying YesYes And No
Author:Milton Resnick
Create image

“Person who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul. So if we want to live better and invest wisely in our souls, we've got to change our approach to the way we make decisions. We've got to rethink how we use the two most powerful words, yes and no.”

IfsWayWantPersonsTwoSoulUseDecisionPowerfulSadnessApproachStressMost PowerfulSchedulesOverwhelmedAchePowerful WordsYes And No
Author:Lysa TerKeurst
Create image

“Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many civilians to understand the sacrifices military families make. However, my experience is that after the Vietnam War, the public learned that they should support the military whether or not they support the war. You've seen that outpouring of support for the veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan.”

ShouldWarHardAmericaSupportSacrificeMilitaryPercentIraqPopulationServingAfghanistanVietnamVeteranCiviliansVietnam WarYes And NoMilitary FamilyServing In The Military
Author:Steve Stivers
Create image

“At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.”

HeartMeanDoeSoulMatterSpiritStepsGreatnessIntegrityTruth IsConscienceSurrenderHardestSevereOur LoveEvery StepYes And No
Book:The Portable Nietzsche
Create image

“Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”

IfsHumansHeartMadeLightNightTermLove IsDestinyFateMiddleDestructionSalvationSentimentsShedHuman HeartAlasProposeCradleDilemmaCoffinsLove Is LifeYes And No
Book:Les Misérables
Create image

“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.”

IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsShouldTwoFactsChristAcceptanceOughtMouthsBlessedCeaseWho I AmDirtyBehaveReconciliationSoapEloquentDirty WordsYes And No
Author:Aldous Huxley
Create image

“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.”

MenShouldTryingLittlesArtRealFeelingsYoungArtistPayRiskWorstTasteGainsFairsDespiseArtificialUnconditionalFooledNuanceYoung OnesReal ArtistsYes And No
Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Create image

“The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.”

MeanLongLightAmericaCultureEvilVirtueHonestyGeniusIntegrityBedSpeechEthicsInnocenceAmerican CultureFidelityDaylightHonesty IntegrityMoral EthicsYes And No
Author:Richard Rodriguez
Create image

“True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

IfsWayFeelsHumansEndsMomentsWould BeSpiritualPurposeSufferingReadingRealizingHuman BeingsCompassionHumilityEgoDepthChosenCracksShellsUnnecessaryAlignmentTrue FreedomNo CompassionYes And NoUnnecessary Suffering
Book:Stillness Speaks
Create image

“Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"”

FeelsFormNightFallSidesSunDoubtWorstTasteSummerFruitWinterStormEggsFountainSpyClashBudMiragesLarksYes And No
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
Create image