Best 373 quotes in «surrender quotes» category

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world.

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.

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

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.

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

I would surrender my being to see you whole once more.

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life.  He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

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.

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender.

Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith that you got.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.

Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.