RESIGNATION

Related Subjects: Calm, Humility, Meekness, Patience, Philosophy, Submission, Waiting

1. Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage that which hath befallen thee.—Apocrypha, 2 Esdras
   

2. Resignation! What a forlorn means of self-help! Yet it is the only
   one left to me.—BEETHOVEN

3. Resignation is the rarest sort of courage.—GUSTAVE DROZ
   

4. There is a certain satisfaction in feeling you are bearing with heroic resignation the irritating folly of others.—JEROME K. JEROME, The Passing of the Third Floor Back
   

5. For after all, the best thing one can do
   When it is raining, is to let it rain.—LONGFELLOW, Tales of a Wayside Inn
   

6. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.—LOWELL, Democracy and Addresses
   

7. All is best, though we oft doubt
   What the unsearchable dispose
   Of Highest Wisdom brings about.—MILTON, Samson Agonistes
   

8. Bear, and blame not, what you cannot change.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

9. Things past redress are now with me past care.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

10. What's gone and what's past help
    Should be past grief.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale