Quotes About Resignation

were history confined to the mechanical repetition of the past, no transformation would ever have occurred. Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.

Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.

He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.

You're going to do what you're going to do and that's all there is. That's all you got and that's that.

Life is death in slow motion.

Leaders who doubt that success is possible and who fear the worst should immediately change their attitude or resign so a true leader can take their place.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no strength and even no wish to escape.

During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.

He had drawn up a carved, velvet chair and was resting his left hand on its back, holding a candle, and using his right hand to cross himself, rolling his eyes upwards every time he put his fingers to his forehead. His face conveyed a gentle piety and resignation to the will of God. 'If you cannot understand feelings like these,' his face seemed to say, 'that's too bad for you.

What can one do?' " Stepan Oblonsky says early on in the book. " 'The world's made like that.' " Part of the way this world was made is that wives get older faster than their husbands.

When during those first days he remembered that he would have to die, he said to himself: "Well, what of it? So much the better!

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

Let him lie among the strings until there is no hope for his daily strategy, until he cries, I am yours, I am your creature.

He had been thinking about how easy it was to stay alive now that he didn't care about being alive anymore.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

Now that he was teaching Quentin could see why the faculty didn't bother trying to improve the climate. It kept people amazingly focused. … You could actually watch as the determination to seize the moment and live life to the fullest ebbed right out of them, and they resigned themselves to lonely, silent, indoor study instead.

Sabes lo mas divertido? Lo que es para partirse de risa? Que no es verdad, que ni siquiera lo quieres. Aunque todo esto terminase sin mas contratiempos, seguirías sin ser feliz. Te rendiste en Brooklyn y en Brakebills, y cuando llegue el momento también te rendirás en Fillory. Es lo más fácil, ¿verdad?

Fate is coming whatever you do, so quit wriggling around, it's only making you look more ridiculous than you already do.

The bus was thick with resignation, like a prison bus. Some kids slept. Others—the boys mostly—seemed to actually be stimulated by the atmosphere of despair; they ran feral, like being on a school bus meant they were in international waters.

I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. —William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Oh well, another dream dies.

You can't fix it. You can't make it go away.I don't know what you're going to do about it,But I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm justgoing to walk away from it.

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.