Surrender quotes
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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
-- Alain de Botton -
Never despair. Never surrender.
-- Alan Moore -
Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.
-- Amy Adams -
When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
-- Bede Griffiths -
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Surrender is Beautiful. When we surrender Our Soul's beauty is reflected in Life's Stream.
-- Bentinho -
To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.
-- Bhakti Charu Swami -
My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender
-- Bing Crosby -
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
-- Brad Henry -
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Never surrender opportunity to security.
-- Branch Rickey -
Listening to something is an act of surrender.
-- Brian Eno -
That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.
-- Brother Lawrence -
People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
-- Carolyn Hax -
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Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
-- Catherine Ponder -
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
-- Cecil Taylor -
All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you.
-- Cheri Huber -
What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life
-- Christopher Paolini -
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Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.
-- Chuck Hagel -
You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
-- David Deida -
...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
-- David Eddings -
Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.
-- David Harvey -
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breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
-- David Levithan -
Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
-- David Platt -
Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
-- Dee Hock -
Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is turning them over into the hands of God.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
-- Elliot W. Eisner -
Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
-- Emile Zola -
I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'
-- Eric Clapton -
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
-- Erica Jong -
I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger!" Graypaw stopped his careful stalking to wander comically across the clearing "I will have to settle for hunting stupid mice I shall just wander up to them, and sit on them until they surrender!
-- Erin Hunter -
You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.
-- Felix Morley -
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[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
-- Friedrich August von Hayek -
Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.
-- Gangaji -
All who surrender will be spared ; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated .
-- Genghis Khan -
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
-- George Santayana -
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Fear drives away love. Without love, there is no surrender of all our inner cares and worries to the Mahanta (our inner guide).
-- Harold Klemp -
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
-- Harold Nicolson -
I won't give up till we surrender!
-- Harry Styles -
We shall not surrender.
-- Hugh -
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Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.
-- Hun Sen -
What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.
-- Ivo Andric -
Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.
-- J. G. Ballard -
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
-- Jack Kornfield -
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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
-- Jack London -
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
-- James Douglas, Lord of Douglas -
Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon -
Surrender had played out for good with me.
-- Jesse Jackson -
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When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.
-- Jodhi May -
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
-- John C. Calhoun -
I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.
-- John Galt -
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
-- John Ortberg -
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Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
-- Josef Pieper -
To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.
-- Jozef Pilsudski -
When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!
-- Judith Orloff -
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It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.
-- Judith Schaechter -
I will surrender to the moment today.
-- Karan Casey -
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
-- Karl Kraus -
Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.
-- Kate Millett -
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Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.
-- Kevin DeYoung -
I would surrender my being to see you whole once more.
-- Khloe Kardashian -
As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
-- Kris Kristofferson -
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
-- Krishna Das -
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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
-- Lance Armstrong -
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.
-- Leigh Brackett -
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
-- Leonard Cohen -
Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.
-- Leonard Jacobson -
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It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'
-- Lysander Spooner -
The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.
-- Margaret Mitchell -
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
-- Margot Asquith -
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
-- Marianne Williamson -
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The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins
-- Marianne Williamson -
At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.
-- Marion Woodman -
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
-- Mark Nepo -
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
-- Mata Amritanandamayi -
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
-- Max Ehrmann -
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
-- Max Lucado -
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To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.
-- Michelle Cruz -
Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
-- Michelle Malkin -
Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.
-- Mooji -
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Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.
-- Myles Munroe -
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss -
When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.
-- Natan Sharansky -
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
