84 Inspirational Quotes on Submission (ACCEPTING)

Top 10 Most Famous Quotes on Submission (BEST)

“It’s hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That’s part of the joy of being a submissive. None of the decisions are yours. When you can’t refuse anything and can’t even move, those voices in your head go silent. All you can do, and all you are permitted to do, is feel.”
Cherise Sinclair

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time. - Myles Munroe — Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the **time**. – **Myles Munroe**

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. - Henry Miller — True **strength** lies in submission which permits one to **dedicate** his **life**, through **devotion**, to something beyond himself. – Henry Miller

“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.”
George Sand

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. - John F. Kennedy — The cost of **freedom** is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. – **John F. Kennedy**

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. - Rebecca West — Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. – Rebecca West

“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”
Mary Wollstonecraft

Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths. - Mark Batterson — Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other’s strengths. – Mark Batterson

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. - Charles Dickens — You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. – **Charles Dickens**

We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve. - R. C. Sproul — We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve. – R. C. Sproul

15 Thought-Provoking Quotes on Submission

“Fear, anxiety, arousal, and pain; all are emotions and sensations. They are neither right, nor are they wrong; good nor bad. They are simply passions, a most important part of life. Feel them, fully experience them, surrender to them, and learn to accept them. As a submissive, you must let go.”
Nikki Sex

What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part. - Hanya Yanagihara — What any writer **hopes** for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader’s part. – Hanya Yanagihara

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. - Fulton J. Sheen — Head **knowledge** is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right **action**. – Fulton J. Sheen

“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
Bertrand Russell

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. - George III of the United Kingdom — Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. – George III of the United Kingdom

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty. - Marquis de Lafayette — Let not **ambition** take possession of you; love the **friends** of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty. – Marquis de Lafayette

“The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.”
Angelina Grimke

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body). - Ikechukwu Izuakor — Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body). – Ikechukwu Izuakor

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. - George Orwell — You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. – **George Orwell**

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. - John Calvin — You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. – John Calvin

Submit to the fate of your own free will. - Marcus Aurelius — Submit to the **fate** of your own free will. – **Marcus Aurelius**

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Fire and Axe to those who submit! - Theodoros Kolokotronis — Fire and Axe to those who submit! – Theodoros Kolokotronis

Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs. - Seneca — Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that **fortune** brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs. – **Seneca**

Man cannot do anything brave in the world unless he submits his life to a Master superior to him. - Nikos Kazantzakis — Man cannot do anything **brave** in the world unless he submits his life to a Master superior to him. – Nikos Kazantzakis

6 Motivational Quotes on 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.”
Elif Safak

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage - these are among the characteristics which make a man. - Samuel Smiles — Obedience, submission, discipline, **courage** – these are among the characteristics which make a man. – Samuel Smiles

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through. - A.J. Darkholme — Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher **purpose**, worth seeing through. – A.J. Darkholme

“True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

To submit isn’t to be forced. It’s to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole. - Dianna Hardy — To submit isn’t to be forced. It’s to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole. – Dianna Hardy

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs. - Samael Aun Weor — Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs. – Samael Aun Weor

9 Wise Quotes on Submission

“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.”
Eldridge Cleaver

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand. - Jonathan Haidt — **Focusing** on **effective** **leadership** without focusing on a willingness to follow is like **studying** clapping by studying only the left hand. – Jonathan Haidt

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible. - Winston Churchill — If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible. – **Winston Churchill**

“I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven’t had very good modeling in submission.”
Faye Wattleton

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions. - Charles Simic — To submit to **chance** is to reveal the self and its obsessions. – Charles Simic

To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift. - Sunday Adelaja — To submit one’s self to one’s **gift** is to submit oneself to **education** and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift. – Sunday Adelaja

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.”
Thomas Jefferson

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. - Ernestine Rose — 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. – Ernestine Rose

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission. - Rory Miller — It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission. – Rory Miller

7 Quotes on Love and Submission

“Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.”
Rob Bell

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. - Wm. Paul Young — Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. – Wm. Paul Young

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. - George Eliot — A woman dictates before **marriage** in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. – **George Eliot**

“Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.”
Dan Barker

Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds. - Rumi — Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds. – **Rumi**

“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.”
Lora Leigh

“Submission makes love easy and enjoyable. Love gives birth to willful and cheerful submission. Where there is love and submission is missing, and where there is submission and love is missing, the result is that the other becomes a burden and a uneasy yoke.”
Paul Bamikole

20 Quotes on Submission to God

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.”
A. W. Tozer

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. - Rick Warren — You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. – **Rick Warren**

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission. - Alan Redpath — The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission. – Alan Redpath

“Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple. Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires. More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural. Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow.”
Yasmin Mogahed

Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices. - Brenda Waggoner — **Resentment** is often a woman’s inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given **responsibility** – that of making choices. – Brenda Waggoner

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission. - Andy Stanley — Divine direction begins with unconditional submission. – Andy Stanley

“And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquility will be ours.”
Alexander MacLaren

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission. - Leo Tolstoy — God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission. – **Leo Tolstoy**

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God! - T. D. Jakes — No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God! – T. D. Jakes

“I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.”
Charles Spurgeon

The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake. - K.P. Yohannan — The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake. – K.P. Yohannan

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you. - Thomas A. Kempis — Carry the cross **patiently**, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you. – Thomas A. Kempis

“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.”
Richard Foster

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. - Saint Basil — It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. – Saint Basil

We must submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity. - Robert E. Lee — We must submit ourselves in **adversity** to the will of a **merciful** God as cheerfully as in **prosperity**. – Robert E. Lee

“This attitude of complete submission and complete trust is of course the key to working out our own salvation in fear and trembling and is the mark of a truly spiritual Christian.”
John F. Walvoord

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures. - Max Lucado — When we submit to God’s plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God’s plan and our pleasures. – **Max Lucado**

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely. - Alan Hirsch — This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely. – Alan Hirsch

“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God’s. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”
Eugene H. Peterson

A man is not far from the gates of heaven when he is fully submissive to the Lord’s will.

5 Quotes on Submission to Authority

“A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.”

Our submission defines our authority. - Bradley Cooper — Our submission defines our authority. – Bradley Cooper

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

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God. - Joyce Meyer — The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God. – **Joyce Meyer**

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein — Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. – **Albert Einstein**

2 Quotes on Submission to Husband

“I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated.”
Anais Nin

The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband. - Steve Pearce — The wife’s submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband. – Steve Pearce

2 Quotes on Submission to Oppression

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. - Simone Weil — Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. – Simone Weil

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston — Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. – Sam Houston

3 Quotes on Submission and Islam

“For the most part, Islam is about peace. It’s dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we’ll fight in the name of Allah. We’re not going to let you disrespect our prophet.”
Ghostface Killah

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit. - Steve Bannon — Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit. – Steve Bannon

“I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

5 Quotes on Submission That Will Make You Think

“I’ve solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That’s the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul. You mustn’t let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.”
Klaus Kinski

Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience. - Tim Storey — Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience. – Tim Storey

I've been doing everything people like to see knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight. - Amanda Nunes — I’ve been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight. – Amanda Nunes

“We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.”
Jacques Lacan