Top 100 Quotes About Resignation
#1. I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.
Richard Jenkins
#2. The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.
Alan Cohen
#3. This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.
Will Rogers
#4. I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
Amy Lee
#6. Giordino ... simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?
Clive Cussler
#7. Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.
Gerard Majella
#8. The wise in all ages ... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#9. I used to try to hypnotize myself into a Zen-like state of resignation at the outset. It doesn't work, not for this grasshopper. I have my own process, as they say. I call it the motherfucker process.
Matthew B. Crawford
#10. Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Joseph Conrad
#11. Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
Nan Hayworth
#12. By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.
Honore De Balzac
#13. Three can eat as cheaply as two, the well-known arithmetic of resignation in any family where a child is expected, now one can say with even greater authority, Ten million can eat as cheaply as five, and with a quiet smile, A nation is nothing but a great big family.
Jose Saramago
#14. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
Billy Collins
#15. Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith
#16. The dialectics of hunger, the dialectics of poverty. How people move from resignation and from callousness to cynicism and being beaten-down, and anger and self-destruction ... and finally to anger and violence which can become very creative in the process.
Anonymous
#17. How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.
Francois Fenelon
#18. If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
Thomas Jefferson
#19. The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.
Joe Hill
#20. North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more devastating violence than that of armed groups, even if the latter are spectacular.
Tariq Ramadan
#21. What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
Tony Blair
#22. I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. He accepted hard times with resignation, like his ancestors had done for centuries. He just gritted his teeth and kept moving because there was no way to turn back.
Manel Loureiro
#24. On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.
Rodney Crowell
#25. If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
David Livingstone
#26. Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
#27. On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
Barton Gellman
#28. I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can't imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that's it.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#29. For I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.
Jane Austen
#30. After what happened with Valerie "Santamaria" Statham, I had expected his stress level to go through the roof, but true to his habit of surprising everybody, he tendered his resignation and just walked away "to pursue other opportunities".
Joe Schreiber
#31. In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.
John H. Vincent
#32. Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
Kohta Hirano
#33. According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
Vince Cable
#34. Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office.
Jon Stewart
#35. There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
Gavyn Davies
#36. I've quit.
I didn't get your resignation letter. Invite me in.
Kitty French
#37. Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
Stephen Ambrose
#38. It's seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days ... " he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze lifted to meet mine, and his voice changed. " ... at least until I found you.
Meg Cabot
#39. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett
#40. She's smart and a hard worker."
"And?"
"A little on the crazy side." Cece inhaled with resignation. "I was overjoyed when the district elected a woman, but Rebecca's half a bubble off plumb.
Carolyn Haines
#41. The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.
George Brandis
#42. Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.
Arianna Huffington
#43. We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism." He
Emma Donoghue
#44. We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
Frederick Lenz
#46. As far as we could tell, the face of the revolution was a sea of embroidering women, patiently waiting the resignation of their repressive governor.
Diana Denham
#47. Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander
#48. The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. Until annihilation comes. And all grand ideas are seen for what they are.
Cormac McCarthy
#49. Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.
Ian Fleming
#50. It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.
Jonathan Swift
#52. I have the overwhelming urge to pull her up out of her chair and kiss her in front of everyone, then scream my resignation at the top of my lungs.
Colleen Hoover
#53. Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.
John F. Kennedy
#54. To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
Jean De La Fontaine
#55. It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.
Martin Jay
#56. Patience is ... clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.
Neal A. Maxwell
#57. What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Sophie Swetchine
#59. She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so has no trouble giving something trifling
Jennifer DuBois
#60. The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.
Samuel Florman
#61. Acceptance is a far better word and denotes a more positive attitude than resignation; I've always known that, but in recent days I've found one which is better still; it is consent.
Faith Baldwin
#62. See how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#63. It's an unfortunate fact of life," Niko said with grimly amused resignation. "Where there are graveyards, there are flesh-eating revenants. Where there are cars, there are car salesmen.
Rob Thurman
#64. Was it she who saved me from the silent death that characterizes resignation to solitude?
Elie Wiesel
#65. I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.
Thaksin Shinawatra
#66. I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Richard M. Nixon
#67. It's a sense more of resignation than of acceptance, of entrapment rather than freedom, of being stuck rather than moving forward.
Russ Harris
#68. I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
Alberto Fujimori
#69. As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.
Nigel Lawson
#70. In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.
Jackson Browne
#71. I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx
#72. Like so many of his sitters, you had to die an early death, and in your eyes as in theirs, one could see the gloom of forebodings alternating with the soft light of resignation.
Marcel Proust
#73. As the African American theologian James Cone notes, "Far from being songs of passive resignation, the spirituals are black freedom songs which emphasize black liberation as consistent with divine revelation.
James Martin
#74. Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
Soren Kierkegaard
#75. Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
John Dryden
#76. Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
Napoleon Hill
#77. In order to continue in office, any government (not simply a 'democratic' government) must have the support of the majority of its subjects. This support, it must be noted, need not be active enthusiasm; it may well be passive resignation as if to an inevitable law of nature.
Murray Rothbard
#78. From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.
Albert Camus
#79. Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.
Debbie Ford
#80. The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high as he
-from his resignation letter to Graham's Magazine
Edgar Allan Poe
#81. The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.
Martin O'Malley
#82. Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes ... To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety.
Paul Tournier
#83. Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.
Gunter Grass
#84. While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.
Jack E. Weller
#85. My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
Jorge Luis Borges
#86. It was one of the moments you stay in, to hell with all the troubles of before and after. The sky is blue and the dead are coming back. Later in the afternoon, with sad resignation, the county fair bares its breasts.
Denis Johnson
#87. He gazed for an hour upon the great clouds of pearl that hang forever upon the horizon of that sea, and extracted from their beauty a resignation that he did not permit his reason to examine. The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.
Thornton Wilder
#88. My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
Andrew Weil
#89. Resignation is just simply out of the question ...
John Podesta
#90. Don't give in to the forces of mediocrity that pull so many people into the ranks of disengagement and resignation. Be fearless Be bold.
Timi Nadela
#91. You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness,
Like resignation to the end, Always the end.
Gotye
#92. When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.
Stephen Covey
#93. But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. There are no dark sinister reasons for my resignation.
Mike Hargrove
#95. The word 'bollocks' is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster. And
Ben Aaronovitch
#96. The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
Chuck Palahniuk
#97. That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
David Blunkett
#98. Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.
Kevin Focke
#99. Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.
Martin Bashir
#100. It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
Pericles
