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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

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.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

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

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

I don't have any intention of resigning.

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

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.