Resignation Quotes
156 quotes by 143 authors
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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…
— Warren Buffett
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
— Salmon P. Chase
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
— Noam Chomsky
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Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations,…
— Corazon Aquino
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
— John Dryden
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite…
— Henry David Thoreau
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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…
— Alan Cohen
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.
— Richard Darman
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Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning…
— Nichelle Nichols
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I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.
— Thaksin Shinawatra
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I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising,…
— Rene Magritte
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I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His…
— Thomas Chalmers
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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little…
— William Hazlitt
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Who Wrote These Resignation Quotes
143 authors contributed a total of 156 Resignation Quotes, led by these top contributors: