Quotes About Resignation

You are born into genius but have you resigned yourself to mediocrity ?

In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.

Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn't fun any more, so I'm getting off the ride. Roger

I had run out of causes and was close as I ever might be to peace.

The chief quartermaster on the West Coast, Robert Allen, an old friend of Grant's, learned he was holed up in a cheap miner's hotel called "What Cheer House." He found Grant in a spartan garret room furnished with a cot, a pine table, and a chair. "Why, Grant, what are you doing here?" Allen asked. "Nothing," Grant replied. "I've resigned from the army. I'm out of money, and I have no means of getting home.

Grant notified the president that he had vacated the office and no longer functioned as war secretary. Faced with this fait accompli, Johnson was furious, believing Grant should have resigned his post and allowed him to name a successor.

As it turned out, Junior resigned from the bank board the following year, finding some of its practices questionable.

To live with his own conscience, he told his father, he had to resign from the trust and devote his life to philanthropy.

But Perkins had left the bank on bad terms

Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O

Zeno spoke Greek, not Latin, and preferred passive resignation to reckless optimism.

Peace comes through acceptance.

The fact is we all "went flat," we were deadened. Discomforts and indignities, our own or others', that would have enraged us a short time before we now accepted resignedly with a shrug of the shoulders.

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

es inútil seguir luchando más tiempo; da igual que me salte la tapa de los sesos, todo está terminado. - Es la última tontería que hay que hacer - dijo Athos -, dado que es la única que no tiene remedio.

The old man began to lose heart at this endless return of chains, this rebirth of shackles, this proliferation of suffering, which the more resigned began to accept as proof of the uselessness of all revolt (171-172).

Voglio dire che prima o poi smetterà di rompermi i coglioni ovunque io vada, e io proverò lo stesso sollievo che si prova quando in una stanza si spegne il motore del frigorifero, ma anche lo stesso sgomento inevitabile, e la sensazione, che lei certo conoscerà, di non essere sicuri di sapere cosa farsene di quell'improvviso silenzio, e forse di non esserne in fondo all'altezza. Le sembra di aver capito?

Maybe it's that life, at times, gets to you in a way that there's really nothing more to say.

Everything, it seemed to Mma Ramotswe, had a waiting list—except the government taxman and the call, when it came, to leave this world. You could not argue with the agents of either of these: you paid, and you went. But I am just on the waiting list…No, there is no waiting list for these things…

they were two people thrown together on a journey, who found themselves sharing the same railway compartment and becoming resigned to each other's company.

I won't think about it now, there's nothing I can do about any of those things.

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you. -Maximilien Morrel

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?