Best 373 quotes in «surrender quotes» category

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

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

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

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

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

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

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

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.

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

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

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.

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 is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

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

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

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

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

[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.

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

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

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace.

Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation; surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever. -Personal Revolutions

Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don’t choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.

Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life — run to your pain.

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care to know before they surrender!

Allow yourself to let go, surrender, and breathe in the beautiful world that is waiting for you just outside of your comfort zone.

Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?