Kobe Bryant

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

American Basketball Player

Simon Conway Morris

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.

British Scientist

John Lithgow

I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.

American Actor

Anne Frank

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

German Writer

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

American Author

Ken Hensley

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

English Musician

George P. Shultz

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

American Public Servant

Kim Brooks

I allow myself to feel fear without always capitulating to it... You don't have to live your life by fear.

American Writer

Friedrich Schiller

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

German Dramatist

Samuel Johnson

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

English Writer

Use 'capitulate' when referring to the end of a struggle or battle, especially wars or fights.

Conflict Related

'Capitulate' carries a sense of giving in after a period of resistance and often implies a loss of dignity.

Emotional Weight

'Capitulate' may suggest that the surrender was not by choice, but due to being overpowered.

Not Always Voluntary

'Capitulate' highlights a sense of reluctance before eventually agreeing to something undesired.

Reluctant Agreement

The word can imply someone yielding under social, psychological, or emotional pressure.

Psychological Pressure

When 'capitulating', the person does not argue further, suggesting a final and silent agreement.

Without Protest

 when he turned the paper in late. The principal didn't want to stand up to the parent because he didn't want to get dragged into some legal proceedings. So, she had to go to meeting after meeting, same arguments made over and over again. After 30 days of sleepless nights, she finally capitulated and raised the grade.