Resignation Quotes

156 Resignation quotes by 143 unique authors

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda,… — Billy Collins
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. — Pierre Salinger
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. — Vince Cable
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… — Gavyn Davies
While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke
I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies. — Richard Jenkins
We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait — Frederick Lenz
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is… — Elie Wiesel
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
Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. — William Cowper
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
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will. — David Livingstone
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… — Will Rogers
It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth… — Napoleon Bonaparte
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… — Jackson Browne
The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded. — Frederick William Borden
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. — Michael J. Fox
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. — Joseph Conrad
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible… — Joseph Conrad

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