Resignation Quotes

156 Resignation quotes by 143 unique authors

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet. — Amy Lee
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. — W. Somerset Maugham
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. — Huey Newton
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
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. — Bertrand Russell
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief,… — Robert Schumann
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things,… — Adam Smith
I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the… — Helen Thomas
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting… — Paul Tournier
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world.… — Andrew Weil
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not… — Henry David Thoreau
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the… — Zora Neale Hurston
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen
Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. — Emily Bronte
Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket. — Ian Fleming
Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up… — Neal A. Maxwell
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave… — William Arthur Ward
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and… — Paulo Coelho

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