Welcome to our collection of submission quotes, where the power of words converges to encapsulate the essence of surrender, resilience, and the beauty found in yielding to life’s inevitable flow. Submission, often misunderstood as a sign of weakness, is in fact a profound act of courage and self-awareness. It is an acknowledgment of the limits of our control and a surrender to the greater forces at play.
In these curated quotes, you’ll discover insights from various perspectives – be it philosophical, spiritual, or practical – all converging to illuminate the multifaceted nature of submission. From ancient wisdom to modern reflections, each quote serves as a beacon guiding us through the depths of surrender, reminding us of its transformative power and the freedom it bestows upon those who embrace it. Here, you’ll find words that inspire, provoke thought, and resonate deeply with the human experience. Whether you seek solace, inspiration, or simply a moment of reflection, let these quotes on submission be your companion on the journey of self-discovery and growth. Explore them, reflect upon them, and let them enrich your understanding of the beauty inherent in letting go and yielding to life’s unfolding mysteries.
I’m in my best moment, seven straight wins, five by submission, two by knockout. I don’t ever leave it in the hands of the judges. Charles Oliveira
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. Stanley Milgram
We always want the knockout or the submission. Lyoto Machida
Everybody would rather get a quick submission, a quick knockout. Robbie Lawler
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband’s authority and a wife’s submission, holding strongly to the ‘master-in-my-own-house theory,’ thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased. Annie Besant
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
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. Lynn Abbey
When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, ‘Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don’t see any point in you continuing.’ I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things. Jon Ronson
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. Alexander Herzen
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it’s the biographer’s job to clobber it into submission. You’re meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots. Stacy Schiff
I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it’s a kind of submission, obedience. Naomi Alderman
When I first have an idea, I’ll spit-ball it with my husband: he’s my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I’ll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there’s four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product. Zoe Foster Blake
There are so many things that make the moment for a submission. There is timing, muscle memory, a lot of times power. When you commit, you have to have power and technique. It has to be sharp. Raphael Assuncao
If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission. John C. Calhoun
There’s guys like Daniel Bryan and CM Punk that incorporated mixed martial arts submissions and moves into professional wrestling. I feel like the way it was incorporated was really good, but there’s not enough people doing it. Matt Riddle
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
I believe in creating ideas that consumers actually want to engage in, creating movements with our thinking and not bombarding them into submission. David Droga
While researching ‘The Submission,’ I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated. Amy Waldman
People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. Alice Walker
As a teen, every major moment was preempted by a torturous, hours-long hair-straightening session. Sleek, silky strands made me feel prettier. And the truth is, I was completely clueless about how to deal with my curls! When they weren’t flatironed into submission for special occasions, they were practically glued down with gobs of gel. Elaine Welteroth
I always go forward and try for the knockout or submission. I’m going to finish my opponent. I’m not going to try to win by decision. Glover Teixeira
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. Simone Weil
I was tortured fifteen times, that’s total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. James Stockdale
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. David Mitchell
It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission. Jack Monroe
I love my 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
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. Sam Houston
I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt. Cullen Bunn
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
I’ve been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight. Amanda Nunes
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
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. George Combe
I’ve had five submissions in the first round. I have 3, 4, 5 knockouts. I’ve had decisions. I’ve had grinding fights. Tyron Woodley
The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer. Henry Charles Carey
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute ‘Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.’ Ernestine Rose
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
For so many years, I was trying to beat my hair into submission, trying to get it to look like someone else’s hair, and I didn’t know how. I remember going through a phase where I even put beer in my hair, because I was told that would make it smooth and curly. Tracee Ellis Ross
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity. Tom Paulin
Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator. Feisal Abdul Rauf
We all learn submission because we all have ‘bosses’, whether we’re presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family. Richard Foster
I’m very good at submissions from the ground. I have good takedowns and good striking, so I’m pretty well-rounded. Fallon Fox
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance. June Carter Cash
A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission. Virginia Foxx
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
I don’t take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions. Michael Chiesa
Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or, more accurately, charity. Somewhere in the middle is peaceful, and much required, coexistence. Tulsi Tanti
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. Margaret Sanger
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery – conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice. John Boyle O’Reilly
As we’ve gotten more successful, there’s a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly. Julian Assange
Cyrus was observed to have more docility than any of his years and to show more submission to those of an advanced age than any other children, though of a condition inferior to his own. Xenophon
I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit. Richard Foster
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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 Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First World War, they were promised a homeland, but the new Turkish state refused to give them any land, while the British went and created the new state of Iraq and sent aircraft to bomb the Kurds there into submission. Adam Curtis
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. David Mamet
I know I have great grappling myself, and I know how I do with submissions. Sage Northcutt
I’m not picky; I’ll get it how I can take it. Submission, KO – whatever it is, if it has me winning, I’ll take it. Brian Ortega
Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you’re the highest karma Redditor or a brand-new Redditor with 10 karma points. No submissions or votes are more equal than others. Alexis Ohanian
We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, ‘in statu missionis.’ Thus, living fully within the mainstream of grace, under the mantle of God’s divine authority, and by uniting ourselves to the obedience of Christ on the cross, we participate in the reversal of Adam’s sin. Michael O’Brien
Republicans in Hollywood hide. I’m challenging them to stand up and have courage. I won’t be scared into submission. Stacey Dash
This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural. Algernon Sidney
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
In wrestling, when I was in high school, my coach said you should be able to hit every single move from any position. So, arm drag to double-leg, snap-down to double-leg. You should be able to hit a move from anywhere, so with my armbar, I can essentially hit it from any position because it’s my favorite submission. Demetrious Johnson
The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women. Oliver Tambo
Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother. Shehbaz Sharif
I married a man who isn’t afraid to wash a dish, scrub a toilet, or have his unibrow waxed into submission by a licensed professional. Jen Lancaster
It’s neither appropriate nor responsible if I drastically amend a policy after one, two, or three submissions of opinion. Carrie Lam
Borrachinha’ boxes better Vettori. Vettori throws good strikes, he’s fast, has rhythm, good heart and good submissions, he fights well in all areas, but I don’t see him taking ‘Borrachinha’ down. ‘Borrachinha’ is more skilled than him in wrestling and hits harder with his hands. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
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. Peter Abrahams
I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government. Toussaint Louverture
Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee. Jason Reitman
I win by submissions, knockouts. There’s guys ranked above me, but no one’s interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight. Nate Diaz
Women are to maintain submission to men in all churches in all times. John MacArthur
I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I’m not really good with submission, so that’s the part of marriage and relationships that I’ve found very hard to deal with. Tichina Arnold
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home. James Lee Burke
Becoming the guy with most submissions in UFC history at age 28, breaking Royce’s record, will definitely give me more leverage with the UFC. I’ll get more attention and more sponsors. It helps a lot. Charles Oliveira
The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over. Newt Gingrich
I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that. Derrick Lewis
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada’s most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy. John Barton
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
McConnell is the most talented majority leader in a generation. He has complete control of his caucus and understands and exploits their weaknesses, ambitions, and desires. In an impeachment trial where his members knew Trump’s guilt was absolute and unequivocal, he bribed and browbeat them into submission. Rick Wilson
There’s probably a hundred more submission holds in the WWE because of me training to bring in those submissions so people could look at them a legitimize them for pro wrestling. You look at it before I was there and after I was there: it’s different matches. Ken Shamrock
I’m really interested in passivity as a type of action – sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission. Alexandra Kleeman
Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. Kim Il-sung
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. Robert Smithson
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It’s a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. Sara Paretsky
I think the only thing that happened when I fought Jim Miller is that I was a just kid, he had way more experience. I was winning the fight, landing punches and trying to get 10 submissions at the same time, and Jim Miller went for one attack only, a kneebar, and got it. His experience made the difference. Charles Oliveira
There’s no question in my mind that the times I was in my prime, I was the most well-rounded fighter out there – or in the world. I was the one who knew how to kickbox. I did kickbox and muay thai, I competed in events in Japan, and I was a submission specialist. Going into the UFC for the first time, I was the most well-rounded fighter there. Ken Shamrock
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we’ve never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. Henry Miller
If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I’d show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission. Colby Covington
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
My appropriations requests have always sought to benefit New Jersey. That is how I base my submissions to the committee for consideration. Rodney Frelinghuysen
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
With ‘California,’ editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn’t believe it! Edan Lepucki
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents. Martin McGuinness
‘Superstar’ Billy Graham was someone that my dad taught from A to Z, from tying up to submission wrestling. Billy was more of a showman than a wrestler. My dad used to love tying Billy in knots, and Iron Sheik would be watching. Bret Hart
It’s always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan. Richard Curtis
I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to ‘Brokeback Mountain’. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I’m glad I did. D. B. Weiss
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. Bertrand Russell
I have a great jiu-jitsu game and I’m awesome at submissions. Charles Oliveira