Resignation Quotes - Page 2

• Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Choices, Heaven

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 351 Page references to James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson are to L. F. Powell's revision of G. B. Hill's edition (1934-50; 1964)

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• I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Feet, May, Praying

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.174

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• No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Faith, Christian, Clouds

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• 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 J. Fox

  Motivational, Mean, Acceptance

  "You Have More Power Than You Think" by David Geller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fate, Acceptance, Yield

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.170

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• Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

  Joseph Conrad

  Love Is, Feelings, Literature

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1118, e-artnow

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• The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Escaping, Ideas, Evil

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• The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

  George Gissing

  Mind, Growing, Calm

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Disappointment, Past, Imagination

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Wish, Patient

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10

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• Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

  Laurence Sterne

  Loss, Compassion, Sick

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Vacancy, Politics

  Letter to Elias Shipman and others, 12 July 1801.

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• It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Exhibitions, Able

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.96

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• I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

  Robert Southey

  Philosophy, Drawing, Fire

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• True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Disappointment, Light, Benefits

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• Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Contentment, Rich

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell”, p.58

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Men, Despair

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

  William Penn

  Desire, Almighty, Ill

  William Penn (1877). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.25

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• You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Philosophy, Men, Blue

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

  Honore de Balzac

  Self, Unfortunate

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Weather, Today, Angry

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Resignation is a daily suicide.

  Honore de Balzac

  Suicide

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• If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

  Rand Paul

  Home, Government, Term Limits

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Feb 13, 2013

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

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Providence, Mines

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