Top 174 Succumb Quotes & Sayings

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

I don't succumb to the pressure of expectations. I try to convert it into excitement.

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the other.'

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

Ours is a government elected by the people and it will not succumb to threats.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

It is only the dogmatic, and the humorless, that don't succumb to my charm.

Man struggles to survive, not to succumb

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.

What, I'm supposed to succumb to your ideal image of what this is? No. I'm gonna stand above that and I'm gonna be who I am and be a rolemodel for these girls.

We often succumb to our food cravings, but it is necessary to have a good diet.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

I don't succumb to pressure.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

I have learned that as an artist, I cannot succumb to the temptation to please others.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

In my village, people believed that women should stay in their homes. However, I followed my heart and showed them that I'll not succumb to their regressive ideals.