Surrender Quotes

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth

Power, Greatness, Measure

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg

God, Strength, Fight

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
David Seabury

Best, Wise, Yourself

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
Brian Eno

Active, Verb, Rethink

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Brian Eno

Religion, Chance, Actually

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan Quayle

May, Friends, Matter

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

Move, Works, Propose

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
Pat Robertson

Home, Democracy, Mistake

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
Enoch Powell

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.
Jeremy Lin

Trust, God, Fight

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
Martin Buber

Human, Book, Again

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
Sachin Tendulkar

Family, Home, Mind

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
Pat Robertson

Why, Reason, Principles

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Billy Sunday

Nothing, Times, Church

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
Emil Ludwig

Love, Time, Decision

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy

Growth, Security, Temporary

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
Kristen Bell

Time, Sunday, Nothing

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

Power, Choice, Terrorists

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.
Jason Mraz

Life, Reason, Times

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun

Life, Nothing, Down

Never surrender opportunity for security.
Branch Rickey

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
Brad Henry

Politics, Stake

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
Michelle Malkin

Silence, Speak, Ground

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Thomas Browne

Truth, May, City

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
Franz Marc

Life, Truth, Art

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.
W. Averell Harriman

Fight, Wrong, Against

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban

Peace, History, War

The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.
Jarvis Cocker

Time, Yourself, Give

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Livy

Moment, Difficult, Easy

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Michael Ian Black

Hope, Future, Pain

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