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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
Alexandre Vinet

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

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

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