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
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender
Emil Ludwig
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes
Robert Maynard Hutchins
The purpose of a written constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.
Thomas Jefferson
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
George P Baker
I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.
Anonymous
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
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
Martin Buber
Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender
Clyde Jackson Browne
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
William Cowper
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.
Bryant McGill
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
T.S. Eliot
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties
Jean-Jacques Rousseau