Quotes with surrender

  • 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.
  • Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

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  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • A. W. Tozer 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. [The Root Of The Righteous]
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • St. Teresa of Avila We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • David Seabury 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
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Barney Ross After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Maya Angelou 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
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Barney Frank But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Billy Sunday Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Camille Paglia Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Abba Eban 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
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Enoch Powell I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Arthur Helps 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
    English writer and dean
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  • Virgil Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • John Dewey 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
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Robert H. Schuller 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
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Henry Miller 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
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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