Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Never surrender, it's all about the faith that you got."
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Surrender
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Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances."
Bill Johnson
Athlete
"Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender."
Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding."
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"The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters."
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"Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it."
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"You are only a prisoner when you surrender."
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"Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless."
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"I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon."
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"When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."
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"Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing."
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"Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'"
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"Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being."
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"Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender."
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"Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility."
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"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."
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"How did you get here? Close your eyes . . . and surrender!"
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"Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome."
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"Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender."
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"Try something different. Surrender."
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"It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender"
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"Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God."
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"True love is an act of total surrender."
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"Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace."
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