Top 139 Relinquish Quotes & Sayings

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish.

I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.

Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I will make a point of listening to my healthy, rational fears, and will relinquish all the others.

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

Never relinquish the initiative.

The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Everyone sort of has that voice of self-doubt in their head, but as an artist, you relinquish your right to have that voice.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

It's important to remember that a dictator will not freely relinquish power after having hijacked the constitution and ruled with threats and promises. Sometimes it is necessary to put enough pressure on him that he leaves.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.

I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?

I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

That's something I like about drag - I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don't really like to relinquish control.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.

...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open and empty and let it all pass through you. This is the key, you have learned – to relinquish control, to relinquish the desire for control. Even in this late drama, to try to control is to go mad. And so you do your best to let it all go.

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

When you go in there and fight, you pretty much relinquish and give up the right to make any excuses about something.

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.