Surrender Quotes · Page 11

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

— Geneen Roth

To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there…

— Kamala Markandaya

“And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again…

— Diet Eman

Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution.…

— Maya Angelou

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I…

— Marvin Bell

First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign…

— John Calvin

“When you surrender, you live in eager anticipation of the surprise. The dual weights of yearning and despair are cast off.”

— Annette Vaillancourt

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned…

— Duane Michals

Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

— Josef Pieper

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

— Marianne Williamson

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins…

— Paulo Coelho

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Lance Armstrong

The way to a beautiful, strong, healthy body is to start by trusting yourself right now. Let go of the struggle and…

— Shakti Gawain

So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this…

— Manfred Rommel

The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender…

— Thomas Powers

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare…

— Charlton Heston

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long…

— Francis Chan

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

— John C. Calhoun

“You have to surrender yourself to the experience.”

— Thomm Quackenbush