Renounce Quotes
Renounce Quote of the day
I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.
The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.
The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.
