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• 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

  Educational, Lying, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1896). “Mere Literature, and Other Essays”

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• Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

  Melody Beattie

  Life, Letting Go, Hanging On

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• Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Teamwork, Ideas

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.124, Crown Business

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• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Judging

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Hero, Army, Soldier

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• When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Unique, Love Is

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• My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

  George S. Patton

  Fighting, Army, Men

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Gratitude, Jesus

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.92, ICS Publications

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• When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Ideas, Breathe

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• Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Teaching, Arrogance, Islam

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.129, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

  Paul Tournier

  Faith, Adventure, Christianity

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• We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, America, Get Better

  1988 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA

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• The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Army, Blessing

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.331, Рипол Классик

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• 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

  Pain, Fear, Taken

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Beach, Military

  Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons, history.hanover.edu. June 4, 1940.

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• Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Lasts, Hardest

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• No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Optimistic, Done

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• To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  Irving Wallace

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Fear

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• There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Struggle, Mean

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• Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Acceptance, Transition, Resistance

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.72, New World Library

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• I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Ideas, Way

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Way, Assuming

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Realization, Quiet

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• Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you into the whole. And this is the whole of religion. Within these two words Buddha has condensed the whole essence of religion.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Keys, Essence

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• The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds, waiting, never in a hurry, giving their time to them. The Bauls say, "Everything happens at its right time, everything happens in its own season. Wait, don't be impatient, don't be in a hurry. All hurry is greed, and all hurry is a subtle fight." That which is going to happen will happen. Whenever it is going to happen it will happen; you need not fight existence. You can surrender, you can trust.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Flower, Fighting

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