Quintilian Quotes

Surrender had played out for good with me.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Groan and forget it.

Mr. President, my father always told me that when you have a losing hand, you throw in your cards.

Take this and go back. I am conquered.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority..

Every role is a new form of surrender.

It's tough to say this, but sometimes it's better if you are losing because then you don't expect anything.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

When you stop fighting, that's death.