Relinquishing Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
-
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while…
— Jack Kornfield
-
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest…
— Diane Ravitch
-
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all…
— Mark Doty
-
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
— Ulrich Beck
-
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater…
— Alex Grey
-
The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish…
— Henry David Thoreau
-
Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
— Benjamin Disraeli
-
Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept…
— Iyanla Vanzant
-
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily…
— D. Patrick Miller
-
Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the…
— Ali MacGraw
-
When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would…
— Robert Pattinson
-
All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and…
— Maynard Webb
-
Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
-
Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims…
— Chuck D
-
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future,…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
-
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
— Anthony Trollope
-
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
— George Orwell
-
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions ……
— Jean-Paul Sartre
-
All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
— Frederick Buechner
-
Any more bitching from the geriatric crew? What a bunch of old women. Should I hire another crewmate to change your bed diapers while I’m…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Relinquishing Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Relinquishing Quotes as follows: