Resigned Quotes - Page 5

• I leave my parents here behind
  And all my friends to love resigned
  'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
  Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

  George Moses Horton

  Farewell, Grief, Parent

  George Moses Horton (1973). “The Hope of Liberty: Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces”

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• I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

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• I'll dream no more--by mainly mind
  Not even in sleep is well resigned.
  My midnight orisons said o'er,
  I'll turn to rest and dream no more.

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Sleep, Mind

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• My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Adventure, Twenties

  "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ch. 1, 1870.

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• Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

  Sacrifice, Self, Self Love

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• Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Letting Go, Real, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Despair, Morality

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• 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

  Pain, Healing, Past

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

  Graham Greene

  Death, Near Death

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

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• 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

  Heart, Pride, Idols

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

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• 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

  Ideas, Creating, Gold

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

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Paris, Hopeful

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• 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

  Dog, New York, Expression

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

  Elia Kazan

  Thinking, Years, Faithful

  Elia Kazan, Michel Ciment (1973). “Kazan on Kazan [interviews with] Michel Ciment”, Secker & Warburg : British Film Institute

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• 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

  Women, Suffering, Weakness

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• 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

  Two, Agitation, Exhausted

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• 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

  Brother, Endurance, Doctrine

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• 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

  Acceptance, Goal, Joy

  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

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• Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.

  Queen Latifah

  Long, Facts, Littles

  "Queen Latifah Takes Her Last Holiday". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. January 11, 2006.

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• When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

  Neil Strauss

  Men, Guy, Born

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• Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.

  Alfred Kreymborg

  Ambition, Thinking, Play

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• Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.

  Alfred Capus

  Should

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• After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Goyim, Found, Jew

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• To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mean, Self, Soul

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• The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Scary, Obeying God, Slave

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