Renounce Quotations

Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

For most 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. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

With this offer from the Far East I most likely would have had to renounce the World Cup. This was too high a price to pay.

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.

Meditate on your Dear Lord, and be dead to the world; renounce your love of duality

If they want people to see them as a legitimate part of a political process, it is very clear what they must do. First and foremost, they must renounce terrorism and disarm. And secondly, they have to support peace and accept Israel's right to exist.

For us, it is fundamental. We cannot cooperate with an organization that won't renounce violence and be able to negotiate with the other side.

God cannot be seen so long as there is the slightest taint of desire. Therefore have your minor desires satisfied , and renounce the major ones through right reasoning and discrimination.

Hamas is a terrorist organization, should disarm, and renounce violence. We will not talk to any elected officials who are members of a terrorist group.

Hamas is a terrorist organisation, should disarm, and renounce violence. We will not talk to any elected officials who are members of a terrorist group.

I surrender my mind to Him; I place my wealth before Him. I totally renounce my selfish ways.

I renounce (asylum) for political, civic and patriotic reasons to return immediately to Ecuador and retake power,

Renounce your egotistical pride and your emotional attachment to Maya; focus your consciousness on the Lord's meditation. Says Nanak, this is the path to liberation.

RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

Piety requires us to renounce no ways of life where we can act reasonably, and offers what we do to the glory of God.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

Without God, how can I find peace? There is nowhere else to go. Those who have tasted the sublime essence of His Love, remain satisfied and fulfilled. They renounce their selfishness and conceit, and they pray, God, please attach me to the hem of Your robe. Those whom the Husband Lord has united with Himself, shall not be separated from Him again.

There is no reason for us to accept the suspension of our research activities nor to renounce our rights which conform with international rulings.

This not only opens the door for insurgents to permanently renounce violence and join the political process in order to stabilize Iraq, it also isolates the terrorists who are the enemy of all Iraqis, while setting the stage for the emergence of a strong and independent Iraq.

Every country wants leading companies. Why should Spain renounce its right to one?

I shall love her all my life, shall be to her a faithful friend, and if I can not remain loyal to both God and her I shall renounce her and never see her face again. You call this folly; to me it is a hard duty, and the more I love her the worthier of her will I endevour to become by my own integrity of soul.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

Are we going to demand that they come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and renounce their faith before they become a federal judge?

Anyone who participates in this government must renounce terrorism, must abandon the path of terrorism, must abandon incitement and the culture of hatred (and) must disarm the terrorist groups.

A characterless man is like a pot with many holes, useless for carrying water or for storing it. Renounce and win Peace.

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end

The agreement requires Hamdi, once he arrives in Saudi Arabia, to renounce any claim he has to U.S. citizenship and to abide by strict travel restrictions,

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

They did everything they could to make her renounce her position,

It's necessary for everyone to renounce violence and get to the negotiation table, ... The fighting must stop and dialogue must begin.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

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.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

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.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

Turn Turk Tim, and renounce thy Faith in Words as well as Actions: Is it worse to follow Mahomet than the Devil?

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.