Resignation Quotes

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. (Henry David Thoreau)
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. View quote
Groucho Marx
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things-opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER". View quote
Groucho Marx
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints. (William James)
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed. View quote
Eduard Shevardnadze
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly. View quote
Françoise Sagan
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. View quote
Sophie Swetchine
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well-as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth-then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion. View quote
Max Scheler
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
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. View quote
Adam Smith
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial. View quote
Paul Goodman
I have always been proud of my association with Temple University. I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students. As a result, I have tendered my resignation from the Temple University Board of Trustees. View quote
Bill Cosby
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 Fox)
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. View quote
Kohta Hirano
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. View quote
Paul Tournier
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. View quote
David R. Brower
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order. View quote
Gustav Heinemann