Best 373 quotes in «surrender quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

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

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.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

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.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

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.

Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.

The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die.

There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if you know how to allow love - if you know how to ALLOW, then you know the art of life. In the allowing, in the let-go, in the surrender, is the art of life. How not to be and to let God be - that is the only art of life.

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.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.