Not Surrender Quotes

#1. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.

Ayn Rand

#2. The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?

Thomas Powers

#3. The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.

Martin Berkeley

#4. I will not. I will never surrender. I will fight through to the finsh, whatever the outcome. I will not quit. I will not betray and desert the best thing in my life. No, no, I will not surrender...Earth is the place for love.

Edward Abbey

#5. I will not surrender my profession simply because men throughout history have been unduly enamored of their penises!" - Dr. Christine Putnam

Jordan L. Hawk

#6. (As are all living things. All are caught in the river of power that is the Force, trapped by its currents. Only those who wield the dark side of the Force are capable of changing those currents; they are riverbreakers. They do not surrender to fate. They are its foes.) The

Chuck Wendig

#7. Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

Hafez

#8. Do not surrender to the one that rules this world, you have the greater One in you

Sunday Adelaja

#9. We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#10. There isn't a submission in the world that can force me to tap out. If you get me in a hold, you better be prepared to snap a bone or kill me because I will not surrender. Call me stubborn, I know I am. Call me competitive or spoiled, I'm those things too, but what I am not, is weak.

Skyla Madi

#11. One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Elisabeth Elliot

#12. I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Enoch Powell

#13. You cannot have two foundations. Either you stand and act from your heart and soul, or your life will flow from the animal soul, the nafs, your lust and greed and forgetfulness, which are characteristics of what dies and does not surrender to receive the compassion of God.

Bahauddin

#14. As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it - now or ever.

Ronald Reagan

#15. Do not surrender to a situation that nurtures the ego.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#16. I am afraid, I cannot and will not 'surrender' to Orthodoxy!!
My life in itself is an 'Epic experiment' of nature and new living!!
And I am living the 'Great Adventure'..this moment..NOW!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#17. Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, "I am not." Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, "I am not separate." Surrender is not an act but an understanding.

Rajneesh

#18. In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

Margaret Thatcher

#19. Who is born in freedom will not surrender his freedom.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#20. She would certainly eat only black bread and drink only water rather than sell her soul, and she would not surrender her moral freedom in return for comfort; she wouldn't surrender it for all Schleswig-Holstein [ ... ]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

John Buchan

#22. Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

Nathaniel Branden

#23. Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle, and whose political activity consists in attempts to gain popular support by cunning devices and shrewd manipulation.

Grover Cleveland

#24. Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.

Syncletica Of Alexandria

#25. Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

John Adams

#26. We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

Stephen Colbert

#27. The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

William J. Clinton

#28. But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.

C.L. Wilson

#29. But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

Paulo Coelho

#30. A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Wally Lamb

#31. All who surrender will be spared ; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated .

Genghis Khan

#32. We shall not surrender.

Hugh

#33. To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.

Jozef Pilsudski

#34. He had been through hell and survived, and his reward had come in the form of a woman who could bend but not break, challenge but not conform, submit but not surrender. Naiya was his. Totally, utterly, and irrevocably. And he would never let her go.

Sarah Castille

#35. If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

Sri Chinmoy

#36. Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

Victor Davis Hanson

#37. He would not surrender to the disaster of loving her.

Alexandra Bracken

#38. But it is not out of pride that I do not surrender-"
"I do not surrender therefor I am proud" -Hibari Kyoya

Akira Amano

#39. We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Joseph Stalin

#40. If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

Peter O'Toole

#41. A good submissive does not surrender too easily. There would be no fun in that

Veronica J. Dantes

#42. Dare not surrender to weakness you divine creation!

Bryant McGill

#43. The king of the gods took away this man's family, everyone that he loved - and still this particular man did not surrender.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#44. Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Chuck Hagel

#45. You could be thoroughly an intellectual while not surrendering maleness; you could not be so totally intellectual and not surrender some degree of femaleness.

Joyce Carol Oates

#46. Do not surrender to any master; that would be slavery.
Surrender to yourself, for that would be victory.

Gian Kumar

#47. Surrender means seeing that "I am not separate" - just SEEING that "I am not separate." Nothing is surrendered, nothing is dropped; just a nonsense idea, a dream is no more there because you are awake.

Rajneesh

#48. Don't hold on too long;to which does not belong,
Don't shed a tear; for all the pain that's gone,
Create a new;from the wisdom of the past,
Open your heart wider, as storms do not last.

Nikki Rowe

#49. This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history is a tragedy and not a morality tale

Christopher Hitchens

#50. French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

Jay Leno

#51. Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#52. I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Nelson Mandela

#53. I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Johnny Rich

#54. The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

Woodrow Wilson

#55. It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.

Eknath Easwaran

#56. The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

Thomas Keneally

#57. Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Bryant H. McGill

#58. Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.

Mark Lawrence

#59. If you are faced with the question of whether or not to surrender, make a determination to go on through the crisis, surrendering all that you have and all that you are to Him. And God will then equip you to do all that He requires of you.

Oswald Chambers

#60. There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

Douglas MacArthur

#61. Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Harold Nicolson

#62. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of agency. I'm as guilty as anybody, and I write about it in a book. I'm not condemning anybody.

Douglas Rushkoff

#63. The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

June Jordan

#64. She knows what's coming, and just that look of surrender in her eyes makes me horny as fuck. Not yet, Marcus. Not yet. Your turn will come soon. I don't know why this depravity turns me on so much. I should be revolted by my own desires, but I'm not. The

Clarissa Wild

#65. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

Anais Nin

#66. You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.

Jeffrey Lang

#67. Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Benjamin Franklin

#68. My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

Anna White

#69. According to Viktor Frankl, a person finds identity only to the extent that "he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a cause greater than himself."4 The meaning of our lives emerges in the surrender of ourselves to an adventure of becoming who we are not yet.

Brennan Manning

#70. Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender.

Paulo Coelho

#71. That's not weakness, baby. That's surrender - and they're not the same thing at all.

S.E. Jakes

#72. Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#73. Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.

Nancy Missler

#74. I'm not letting you go, baby girl. You need to accept that.

A. Zavarelli

#75. The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

Edith Wharton

#76. To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her, which is the most terrible bond of all

Henry Miller

#77. We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#78. I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom ... it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!

Jennifer E. Smith

#79. You can let go of me, Kayden."
"That's not going to happen," he promises, his voice low, as seductive as everything else about this man is, and when I look at him, that wolf is back in his eyes as he adds, "In case I didn't make that point already." ~Surrender

Lisa Renee Jones

#80. We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#81. God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

Max Lucado

#82. Ferguson also takes a swipe at the conventional wisdom surrounding aspects of World War I. "The key to the Allies' victory was not an improvement in their ability to kill the enemy," Ferguson argues, "but rather a sudden increase in the willingness of German soldiers to surrender."5

Luke Williams

#83. Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

Chris Rock

#84. Cyber security like a game of chess, its main challenge not to win, but never surrender.

D.K.

#85. Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

#86. God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God.

Oswald Chambers

#87. At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#88. It's all about the "French Paradox," that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of wine, yet still manage to be svelte and sophisticated, not to mention cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

Julie Powell

#89. Sleeping in the same bed with someone to whom you can admit your failings is a lasting comfort indeed. This is not about "mea culpa" as surrender, it is about "mea culpa" as mortar in binding together the uneven bricks of a human foundation.

Michael Perry

#90. To marry is to surrender everything
not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#91. An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not ... he has not any conflict with the whole. He has fallen in harmony, he is in a harmonia.

Rajneesh

#92. But it is not regressive to surrender to our feminine selves. It's the most progressive line if development because it honors, instead of represses, our emotions.

Marianne Williamson

#93. I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.

Danielle LaPorte

#94. Unfortunately for our esteem, societies of the West are not known for their conduciveness to the surrender of pretensions, to the acceptance of age or fat, let alone poverty and obscurity.

Alain De Botton

#95. A dragon doesn't surrender. A dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels more like someone blew on an ember and found a slight orange glow.

Lisa See

#96. I love you, I've loved you for years and I'll love you for years more. It's not something I can fight, it's not something I want to fight.

Somi Ekhasomhi

#97. We're all broken. We all have cracks. It's not about making it through life in one piece it's about narrowing the gap between the fissures so we don't shatter."
Ted Basel to Jo Nehr in my next "Surrender" story

Riley Murphy

#98. 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

#99. Everyday, we have to ask God for our assignment, we must not assume we understand His plan but rather surrender to His will daily.

E'yen A. Gardner

#100. This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

Thomas Merton