List Of Submissiveness Quotes That You Really Need to Know

Modern women often overlook the importance of being able to be submissive.

First and foremost, don't be deceived by the catchy title. I'm not encouraging women to be obedient, to perform the position of 'housewife,' or to have no thoughts.

It's not about that when it comes to being submissive to a man.

I'm also not advocating for women to be completely submissive all of the time. Being submissive is just another part that a woman can play in her relationship with a high-value, macho man from time to time.

I'm talking about being submissive because it can give a healthy relationship more passion, strength, and life.

Submission Quotes 

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time. -- Myles Munroe

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is an unpardonable sin against the spirit. -- Rebecca West

Submission is the act of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths. -- Mark Batterson

The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband. -- Steve Pearce

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. -- William P. Young

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission. -- Andy Stanley

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul, and body). -- Ikechukwu Izuakor

The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake. -- K.P. Yohannan

How to Be Submissive in Marriage

I am a submissive wife to my domineering husband, and our marriage has been the greatest gift I have ever received. I wish every other married couple out there the same type of happiness.

If you consider your husband to be the leader of your heart and house, here are some tried-and-true guidelines for becoming a submissive woman. If your marriage isn't quite as happy as you'd like it to be, these suggestions might help.

To be a freely submissive wife, all you have to do is serve your husband in a way that benefits both you and your marriage.

To be a submissive wife, you must be a strong and confident woman. It doesn't imply that you don't have an opinion or that you surrender control of your life to your husband. Being a submissive wife involves focusing on being your husband's aid, lover, and supporter. Submitting to your husband's wishes is a sign of complete trust and love, and it can help your marriage greatly.

And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weak ones. - Jill Lepore

Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say they don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness. - Maya Banks

Being submissive doesn't mean being someone's doormat. It doesn't mean you are weak. It means you are strong enough to know your desires, strong enough to let go of control. Being submissive isn't easy, and it isn't for the weak.

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

In all probability, an outburst of desperation In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Humility is often only feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in the realm of belief as well. - Noam Chomsky

There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering. - Brandon Sanderson

 Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which imparted to his shoulders most insolent submissiveness. - Jean Genet

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. -- Wm. Paul Young

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

But Bruce pushed her back ever so slightly. "In dancing, at least, the guy still takes the lead." His meaning wasn't lost on Jessica. She'd have to be less aggressive if she wanted to keep him interested. "Then I'll follow wherever you lead," she said with uncharacteristic submissiveness. - Francine Pascal

My voice has expanded. It's unfurled in directions I didn't know it could go. And, in some ways, it isn't even what I thought it was. - Leigh Ann Henion

Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment. - V. Raymond Edman

His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain. - Alice Munro

In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed. — Ida B. Wells

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essential] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated. — Ibn Khaldun

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. — Han Fei 

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others. — Vincent de Paul  

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram  

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. — George 

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as the love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles. — Howard Zinn  

Yes, I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams. — Zack de la Rocha

Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words, and thoughts; daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man. -- John Ross Macduff

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant. -- Elizabeth Gould Davis

But, because the blacks were so close to the very civilization which sought to keep them out, because they could not help but react in some way to its incentives and prizes, and because the very tissue of their consciousness received its tone and timbre from the strivings of that dominant civilization, oppression spawned among them a myriad variety of reactions, reaching from outright blind rebellion to sweet, other-worldly submissiveness. -- Richard Wright

Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab driver, the barman, the air-hostess, and the drug-store assistant. — Anthony Crosland

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from the baseness of soul. -- Simone Weil

“Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.” — François de La Rochefoucauld

What made women's labor particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. — Clara Zetkin

A special kind of manipulation tactic. A manipulator suggests to the conscientious victim that he or she does not care enough, is too selfish, or has it easy. This usually results in victims feeling bad, keeping them in self-doubt, anxious and submissive positions. - Dr. George Simon

The worst guilt is to accept undeserved guilt. - Ayn Rand

A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished, and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance. - Anne Desclos

When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man. - Maya Banks

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anais Nin

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. Aeschylus Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. Noam Chomsky 

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power. Ezra Taft Benson 

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. Mary Wollstonecraft

Best Submissiveness Quotes

1. “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ” -- A.W. Tozer
2. “You cannot fulfill God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. ” -- Rick Warren
3. "Islam means to submit your will to Allah."
4. “To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting. ” -- Gillian Flynn 
5. “A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterward. ” -- George Eliot