Resignation Quotes

156 Resignation quotes by 143 unique authors

Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls… — W. E. B. Du Bois
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. — David R. Brower
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. — Alexandre Vinet
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty… — Gustav Stresemann
Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections — Vladimir Putin
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. — Victoria Woodhull
Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them,… — Vincent de Paul
God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work,… — Vincent de Paul
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… — Jon Stewart
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… — Napoleon Hill
It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations — Kin Hubbard
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. — George Gissing
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — John F. Kennedy
A man must take the fat with the lean. — Charles Dickens
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less… — W. Somerset Maugham
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… — Gunter Grass
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts. — Miguel de Unamuno
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation. — Samuel Florman

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