Resignation Quotes
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others”, p.314, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Samuel Johnson (1846). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale”, p.15
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1963). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Sufi Teachings”, p.94, Library of Alexandria
William Penn (1877). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.25
William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.368
'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)
"The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase". Book by Jacob Schuckers, 1874.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.23, Harvard University Press
To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.
Francois de Malherbe, “Consolation”