Voluntary Departure Quotes

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.

Not many dictators announce their resignation, but I did because I didn't want to stay on and overstay my welcome.

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit ... Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do ... He does not keep "protecting" you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that.

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Impossible! No President ever steps down!

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

You may all go when you wish.

If ever I leave power, it will be only in conditions of beauty, never under pressure.

I was never let go from that company - it was my decision to leave WWE. I had enough.

Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.

I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.

I wanted to retire on my own terms. I wanted to leave before they kicked me out.

A public letter of resignation is almost a vulgar institution.