Quotes on Giving In

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from the heart, then the energy behind the giving increases many times over. But if we give grudgingly, there is no energy behind that giving. If we feel we have lost something through the act of giving, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.