#surrender

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#god #grant #off #strength #surrender

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. ↗

— Henry F. Ashurst

#great #great principle #his #life #man

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

— John C. Calhoun

#down #inferiority #into #life #nothing

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#learn #less #live #more #more and more

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#immediate #immediately #move #other #propose

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

#called #citadel #completely #dark #did

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#end #something #surrenders

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

#fulfill #god #know #learn #namely

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#entrance #happiest #life #my life #office

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#men #must #never #power #surrendered