Surrender Quotes

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength, Winning, Through

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill

Fight, May, Whatever

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Path, High

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi

Give, Compromise, Based

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou

Life, Place, Choice

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Justice, Law

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Path, High

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey

Dreams, Death, Give

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Live, Moments, Pass

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Jesse Jackson

Give, Against, Fall

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal

Feeling, Ends, Reasoning

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila

God, Learn, Ourselves

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom, Evil, Real

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Dreams, Government, Free

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller

Great, Wise, Enough

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov

God, Today, Ignorance

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Robert H. Schuller

Yourself, Decision, Problem

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull

Wish, Last, Remembered

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz

Love, Another, Succeed

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Soul, Against

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
Arthur Helps

Spiritual, Heart, Keep

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John Dewey

History, Old, Logical

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron

Control, Creative, Process

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
James McGreevey

Love, Freedom, Live

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.
Ani DiFranco

Nothing, Down, Less

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Brian Eno

Someone, Act, Emotion

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace

Self, Wrong, Easy

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
Billy Sunday

Jesus, Wants, Complete

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

Life, Self, Dark

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