Top 400 Submission Quotes & Sayings

Islam is nothing but man's exclusive and total submission to God.

If I see an opening, I'll go for the submission.

Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.

Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

Hope is the leash of submission.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

I've finished fights from my feet, I've finished fights with my ground-and-pound, and I've finished fights from my back with a submission, from top with submission. You name it, and I've finished a fight that way.

I will always go for the submission instead of hurting my opponent.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is a test of her love for God as well as a test of love for her husband. The wife then must look upon her submission to her husband as an act of obedience to Christ and not merely to her husband.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!

When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

Always I try one submission. If it doesn't work, the second one works.

It was that surrender he needed. That complete feminine submission to every stroke, every caress, ever naughty act. Only in that submission would the subconscious trust, the bond he needed between them, come. He wanted her to trust, to know, to instinctively understand that he was more than just her lover; he was her other half. The one she told her secrets to. The one, she made secrets with.

The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of boundaries, for boundaries promote self-control and freedom. If a wife is not free and in control of herself, she is not submitting anyway. She is a slave subject to a slave driver, and she is out of the will of God.

I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

Renunciation is submission to time.

We always want the knockout or the submission.

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

I think everybody wants a knockout or a submission.

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

I'm a guy who looks to put the pressure and come out with the knockout or the submission.

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.