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.”
― Danny Wallace, Yes Man

“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.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Accept it as it is and be true to yourself, the real answer is in you. It is about saying no to whom and what no is due and saying yes to whom and what yes is due! A simple solution to most of the problems of mankind today is just Yes and No!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantly.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".”
― Vann Chow

“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.”
― Dash Shaw, Doctors

“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.”
― Clifton Webb