Resignation Quotes

Resignation is the timid sign of courage

— James Joyce

No one ever won a game by resigning.

— Savielly Tartakower

Resignation is a daily suicide.

— Honore de Balzac

The law of common sense.

— Sophie Swetchine

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

— Samuel Johnson

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

— John Dryden

Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“I was eighteen and already tired.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

— Sophie Swetchine

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

— Suzanne Curchod

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.

— David Blunkett

World's Shortest Resignation Letter: Honorable Sir, I Love Your Wife...

— Pacifiersucker

Nixon's impeachment-forced resignation gutted trust of the Republican party for years.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.

— Francois Fenelon

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

— Samuel Johnson

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

— Stephen Ambrose

Mario Ruiz Massieu's resignation places the ball very firmly in Zedillo's court. A key decision he will have to make is whether…

— Denise Dresser

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured…

— Bertrand Russell

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

— Mary Lee Settle

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the…

— Rafik Hariri

“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”

— Michael Cunningham

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my…

— Coco Chanel

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through…

— Michael J. Fox

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and…

— Jean de La Fontaine

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate…

— Dean Koontz

Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on…

— Clive Cussler

The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud…

— Al Sharpton

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God.…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about…

— Nan Hayworth

Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating…

— Nichelle Nichols

“I was just as black as I had been the day that I was born. Therefore, when I faced a congregation, it…

— James Baldwin

“When he resigned his boss thought he was asking for more money. 'No,' he said. 'I'm just going to try to be…

— Salman Rushdie

It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised…

— Robin Lakoff

No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving…

— Jodi Picoult

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said…

— Wallace Stegner

“Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed – that you don’t…

— George Eliot