End Quote by Stanley A. McChrystal

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to…

— Robert E. Lee

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should…

— Sophie Swetchine

Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

— Alexandre Vinet

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

— Camille Paglia

“Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed – that you don’t expect to…

— George Eliot

“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There…

— Nathaniel Branden

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should…

— Moshe Dayan

[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a…

— Mary Antin