Resignation Quotes · Page 6

“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.”

— Jonathan Harnisch

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the…

— William Penn

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think until you reach your mid-30s, there's either a real acceptance of where you are or a resignation of where you…

— Shaun Evans

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

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming…

— Vladimir Putin

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope,…

— Stephen Covey

“see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a…

— Goethe

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept…

— Gavyn Davies

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old…

— Max Scheler

The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope,…

— Anonymous

You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need…

— William Law

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something…

— Billy Collins

The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good…

— Alan Cohen

There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an…

— Christopher Hibbert

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There…

— Stephen King

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the business world, what’s the female equivalent of going golfing with a client?” Laney gave this some thought. Payton fell silent,…

— Julie James

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if…

— Henry David Thoreau

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your…

— Gunter Grass

“wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.”

— Ayn Rand

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

— Alfred de Vigny

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

— Samuel Beckett

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of…

— Miguel de Unamuno

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

— John H. Vincent

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

— D. H. Lawrence

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for…

— Joe Hill

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

— Pericles

Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in…

— Soren Kierkegaard

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the…

— Herbert Marcuse

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample…

— Samuel Rutherford

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

— Jane Austen

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

— Vince Cable

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

— Frederick Lenz

“She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so…

— Jennifer duBois

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with…

— William Arthur Ward

“Simplemente, hazte a la idea, me digo. En este caso, pensar no sirve de nada. Nada de todo esto está en tus…

— Haruki Murakami