Everything in the world
begins with a yes.
-Clarice Lispector

The journey of a lifetime
is in a single step from "No" to "Yes".
-Anonymous

A limping Yes through the aeons journeys still
Accompanied by an eternal No.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no"
are those which require the most thought.
-Unknown

Unless someone truly has the power to say no,
they never truly have the power to way yes.
-Dan Millman

All the mistakes I ever made
were when I wanted to say 'no' and said 'yes'.
-Moss Hart

A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater and a 'yes' merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-Mohandas Gandhi

One half of the troubles in this life

can be traced to saying yes too quickly

and not saying no soon enough.

-Josh Billings

Tell him to live by yes and no -
yes to everything good,
no to everything bad.
-William James

The determining factor
in all manifestation is "Yes" or "No."
-Charles Fillmore

Say No to whatever would oppose a Yes.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams

When you say No,
say Yes to something else.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams

Say Yes by saying No
to whatever opposes that choice.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams

One way to come to yes
is to say no
to everything
that does not nourish
and entice
our secret life
out into the world.
-David Whyte

It is easy to say "no!"
when there's a deeper "yes"
burning inside.
-Stephen Covey

Say No to others
in order to say Yes to yourself.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams

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

Can you be so busy saying "Yes!"
that there isn't time to say "No"?
-Josh Baran

The most important thing
is to have a 'yes' mentality
not a 'no' mentality.
-Richard Branson

It's whether you say yes or no to the serpent,
to the adventure of being alive.
-Joseph Campbell

No was the night.
Yes is this present sun.
-Wallace Stevens

The formula for my happiness:
a Yes,
a No,
a straight line,
a goal.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's first word is Yes;
his second No;
his third and last Yes.
Many men stop short at the first:
very few get to the last.
-Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

After the final no
there comes a yes,
and on that yes
the future world depends.
-Wallace Stevens

For some people the day comes
when they have to declare the great Yes
of the great No.
-Constantine P. Cavafy

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No,
but in the knowledge and the beginning
from which the Yes and the No arise.
-Karl Barth

i imagine that yes is the only living thing.
-e e cummings

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds.
-e e cummings

...a sacred Yes is needed,
my brothers,
for the sport of creation.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I think that you're going to get so much more out of life
if you just say yes at every opportunity.
-Richard Branson

Say yes when nobody asked.
-Laotian Proverb

Always say "yes"
to the present moment.
-Eckhart Tolle

The secret is just to say "Yes!"
and jump off from here.
-Shunryu Suzuki

At the side of the everlasting Why,
there is a yes,
a transitory yes if you like,
but a yes.
-E. M. Forster

It is easy to say no.
But to say yes,
you have to sweat
and roll up your sleeves
and plunge both hands into life
up to your elbows.
-Jean Anouilh

The warrior's approach is to say
"yes" to life:
"yea" to it all.
-Joseph Campbell

To be free,
to be able to stand up and leave everything behind -
without looking back.
To say "Yes" -
-Dag Hammarskjold

Into all abysses
do I carry
my consecrating
declaration
Yes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

I might formulate it
as an affirmation of things as they are;
and unconditional "yes" to that which is,
without subjective protests.
-Carl Jung

For all that has been -
Thanks.
For all that shall be -
Yes.
-Dag Hammarskjold

I have become one who blesses
and one who says Yes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Our task is to say a holy yes
to the real things of our life.
-Natalie Goldberg

I don't know who - or what - put the question.
I don't know when it was put.
I don't even remember answering.
But at some moment
I did answer Yes to Someone - or Something -
and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful
and that therefore my life in self-surrender had a goal.
-Dag Hammarskjold

To say Yes to life
is at one and the same time
to say Yes to oneself.
-Dag Hammarskjold

As I say yes to life,
life says yes to me!
-Louise Hay

Vote with your life.
Vote Yes!
-Paul Williams

True or true?
Yes or yes?
-Mark Victor Hansen

I am no longer sure what the question is,
but I do know that the answer is Yes.
-Leonard Berstein

Yes is the answer
and you know that for sure.
-John Lennon

Yes I said yes I will Yes.
-James Joyce

No dynamo, no matter how huge
- not even a dynamo
of a hundred million dead souls -
can combat one man saying Yes!
-Henry Miller

Yes, God!
Yes, God!
Yes, yes and always yes.
-Nicolas de Cusa

To think is to say no.

-Emile Auguste Chartier