Resigned Quotes:

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

- Graham Greene

source: Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

topic: Death, Near Death, Resigned

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

topic: Life, Done, Resigned

I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: Buck in the Snow (1928) "Dirge Without Music"

topic: Resigned, Knows

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

- Willa Cather

topic: Tree, Way, Aging, Olive Trees, Tree Of Life

In 1984, Jean Vanier invited me me to visit L'Arche community in Trosly, France. He didn't say "We need a priest" or "We could use you." He said, "Maybe our community can offer you a home." I visited several times, then resigned from Harvard and went to live with the community for a year. I loved it! I didn't have much to do. I wasn't pastor or anything. I was just a friend of the Community.

- Henri Nouwen

source: Source: www.liguorian.org

topic: Home, Years, Community, Our Community, Resigned

It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

- Ella Winter

topic: Acceptance, Down And, Sometimes, Resigned, Indignant

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Guilt, Guilty, Wells, Resigned

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

- Harold Rosenberg

topic: America, Stories, Metamorphosis, Resigned

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

- Jim Broadbent

topic: Fans, Sad Day, Resigned

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

- Tom Conti

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Air, Faults, Air Travel, Resigned

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

- Alexander Dubcek

topic: Expecting, Worst, Resigned

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

- Samuel Dash

topic: Unique, Play, President, Watergate, Resigned

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

- Fritz Kreisler

source: Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Order, Color, Years, Resigned

It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

- Lance Armstrong

topic: Children, Cancer, Cynical, Resigned

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

- Scott Ritter

topic: Issues, Government, Going Out, Resigned

John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.

- Tim Willits

source: "Doom Creator John Carmack Officially Leaves id Software". Interview with Mitch Dyer, www.ign.com. November 22, 2013.

topic: Cutting, Technology, Years, Resigned

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Heart, Heavenly, Resigned

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

- Elia Kazan

topic: Thinking, Years, Faithful, Way Of Thinking, Resigned

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Women, Suffering, Weakness, Resigned

Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Two, Agitation, Quiet, Quiet Desperation, Resigned

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Perseverance, Order, Gumption, Laid Off, Resigned

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

- Jane Rule

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Clothes, Resigned

I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

topic: Night, Love Is, Thinking, Resigned

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

- Cilla Black

topic: Years, Albums, Documentaries, Blind Date, Resigned

That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned

- Brother Lawrence

topic: Spiritual, Giving, Soul, Resigned

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

- Gustav Heinemann

topic: Party, Government, Germany, Resigned

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1981, Jester House Publishing

topic: Love Is, Thinking, Suffering, Resigned

All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.

- Ken Grimwood

topic: Taken, Mean, Loss, Resigned

Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.

- Jay Leno

topic: Vegas, Government, People, Resigned, Tax Dollars

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

- Ann Plato

source: Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: May, Spheres, Action, Resigned, Situations In Life

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

- Denis Hayes

topic: Important, Tools, Stones, Resigned

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Fate, Thinking, World, Resigned, Remember Me

I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.

- Father Damien

topic: Giving Up, Sorry, Islands, Resigned

22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries.

- Michael F. Jacobson

topic: Dark, Organization, Fda, Resigned

For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

- Albert Camus

topic: Inspirational, Lying, Years, Debris, Resigned

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

- Ezra Pound

source: "Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry".

topic: Letting Go, Country, Children, Tuberculosis, Resigned

Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.67, Modern Library

topic: Death, Land, Spirit, Resigned

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Brother, Endurance, Doctrine, Insensitivity, Resigned

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

- Therese of Lisieux

source: St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.80, ICS Publications

topic: Acceptance, Goal, Joy, Resigned

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

- Josephus

topic: Pain, Healing, Past, Alacrity, Resigned

Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth of self and pride. The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once remove: Give me a tender heart, resigned, And pure, and full of faith and love.

- John Wesley

source: John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.21

topic: Heart, Pride, Idols, Faith And Love, Evil Thoughts

I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be. I have no idea. That's my existentialism. I am a student of uncertainty, I have no idea where the stock market is going to be. So when I am creating trades in my portfolio for my clients, I am agnostic. I just want to enhance the probability that I make money come what may.

- Hugh Hendry

topic: Ideas, Creating, Gold, Resigned

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: New York, Paris, Hopeful, Resigned, New York City

Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"

- Edmund Fuller

topic: Dog, New York, Expression, Resigned

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

- John McCain

topic: Thinking, Long, President, Resigned

As you run out of options and energy you must become resigned to your plight. Like it or not you must make a new mental map of where you are, not where you wish you were. To survive you must find yourself, then it won't matter where you are.

- Laurence Gonzales

source: "Deep Survival". Book by Laurence Gonzales, 2003.

topic: Running, Finding Yourself, Wish, Resigned

Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

topic: Passion, Men, Justice, Resigned

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

topic: Office, Wish, Done, Resigned

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

- C.P. Snow

source: C. P. Snow (2013). “Science and Government”, p.42, Harvard University Press

topic: Men, Thinking, People, Resigned

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

- John Dieterich

source: "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Doe, Way, Facts, Resigned

Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.

- Jeremy Corbyn

topic: Party, Thinking, Years, Political Issues, Resigned

Chaka Fattah already lost the seat in a Democratic primary. So, he's on his way out. And he formally resigned this week.

- Christopher Michael Cillizza

source: Source: live.washingtonpost.com

topic: Way, Week, Lost, Resigned