Resignation Quotes

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Lives, Quiet

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 it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier

Life, Struggle, Nothing

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

Care, Accept, Please

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 and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett

Depression, Two, President

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

Mean, Acceptance, Through

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

Work, Wish, Sense

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander

Life, Courage, Alone

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Mind, Imagine

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham

Others, Suffering, Learn

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

Best, Found, Offense

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, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

Humor, Good, God

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 to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad

Love, Feelings, Impossible

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Joseph Conrad

Forget, Soul, Divine

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
Michael Jeffery

Feeling, Evening, Simply

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

Great, Deal, Pressure

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
Vince Cable

Miserable, Simply, Papers

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. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
Andrew Weil

Society, Gardening, Beautiful

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
Stephen Ambrose

Before, Inspired, Emotions

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Gustav Heinemann

Hope, Insecurity, Order

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Salmon P. Chase

Act, Grave, Minded

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 of times past.
Gustav Stresemann

Beauty, Government, Past

I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
Anthony Weiner

Work, Wife, Congress

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

Avoid, Bloodshed

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
Pierre Salinger

Life, Great, Death

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
Victoria Woodhull

Freedom, Bear, Curse

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
David Blunkett

Today, Regret, Why

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
Alberto Fujimori

President, Congress, Republic

Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
Nan Hayworth

Job, Matter, Talking

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 happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
Gavyn Davies

Life, Today, Writing

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.
Richard Jenkins

Turn, Watch, Dailies

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