Top 127 Submissive Quotes & Sayings

The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

I don't see myself playing the docile, submissive bahu on television!

I think, especially growing up in the South, we are taught that women are supposed to be soft, gentle and kind of just goes along with everything and is submissive.

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels.

There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations.

This is the spirit of prayer--sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require--God will not accept.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.

My life is not as dramatic as it is depicted in the shows. I am not at all submissive. I am free-spirited.

I played the submissive wife in 'Shakti' because I needed the money. But I'm glad I did.

To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive.

In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.

A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.

I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd love to see a memoir by a submissive man, because we've seen one from a professional submissive and dommes and strippers and hookers. I'd love to see more men writing frankly, not jokingly, about sex.

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.

I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'

I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.

I don't walk into a room with an authoritative stance. I tend to be a little more submissive, even though I think I have a certain amount of strength. So, it's tough for me to play authority without feeling uncomfortable.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.