Resignation Quotes

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.

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

There are no dark sinister reasons for my resignation.

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

Resignation is just simply out of the question.

I have been told I have resigned; however, I'm telling you I have not resigned. Usually a guy knows if he's resigned, but I know that I have not resigned.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

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.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Make sense who may. I switch off.

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.

Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

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

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

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

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

I think Donald Trump now thinks it`s time for Jeff Sessions to resign. There was a reporting that suggested that when Trump first voiced his exasperation with Sessions, that Sessions made it clear to Trump that if Trump wanted his resignation, he would offer it. It seems to me now Trump is sending a pretty clear signal that what he wants is Jeff Sessions to resign, and it`s also pretty clear to me he`s now at war with everyone in the world of justice and law enforcement in the administration.

Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

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.

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

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.

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

I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

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.