Definition of Resigned

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Definition of Resigned
	Resigned of Resign Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. Related Definitions: Disposed, Murmur, Not, Of, Or, Resign, Resist, Submissive, To, Yielding

Resigned Quotations

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
Darrell Royal

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Charles Baudelaire

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Graham Greene

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
Hugo Chavez

Resigned Translations

resigned in Spanish is resignado

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