Yes Quotes

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama

Yourself, Everything, Desire

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi

Trouble, Worse, Avoid

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings

God, Amazing, Everything

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Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
John C. Maxwell

Good, Best, Learn

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Advice, Matter

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Power, Person, Tell

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus

Getting, Question, Answer

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell

Big, Able, Question

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren Kierkegaard

God, Nothing, Wonderful

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus

Getting, Question, Answer

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Henry Rollins

Lonely, Boring, Loner

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
Mae West

Men, Around, Needs

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx

Him, Find, Honest

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker

Mother, Greatest, Gift

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
Michael Jackson

Father, Dark, Used

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday

Home, Hypocrite, Through

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'
Steven Wright

Down, Said, Door

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
Mitt Romney

Life, Religion, Freedom

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

War, End, Between

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

Through, Divorce, Word

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein

Person, Clothing, Indecent

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Best, Friends, Old

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Hell, Intentions

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
Mitt Romney

Government, Business, Help

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Corazon Aquino

Faith, Hope, Patience

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
Karl Lagerfeld

Person, Lose, Few

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
Elizabeth Edwards

Strength, Patience, Human

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

Love, Allah, Fire

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Trust, Keep, Word

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher

True, Platitudes

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