Top 100 Retire Quotes
#1. 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
Carine Roitfeld
#2. You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.
Julio Iglesias
#3. If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt ... retire?
Maria Callas
#4. We have gotten to the point where everything the government does is counterproductive; the conclusion, of course, is that the government should do nothing at all, that is, should retire quickly from the monetary and economic scene and allow freedom and free markets to work.
Murray Rothbard
#5. Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
#6. When people contact me on Instagram or Facebook, kids and adults, who say, "You're an inspiration. You make me want to work hard to achieve my goals." If I can still do that after I retire that makes me feel good.
Usain Bolt
#7. When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.
Chris Jericho
#8. That just seems like a tough thing to do ... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.
Luke Wilson
#9. There comes a day when people begin to say: "Why doesn't that old duffer retire?" I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.
Fred Astaire
#10. God wants us to work (whether at home or on the job), but that doesn't mean it's wrong to retire. The Levites (who assisted in Israel's worship) were required to retire at fifty.
Billy Graham
#11. Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.
Douglas Crockford
#12. I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven
Jacoby Jones
#13. There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.
Mark Matousek
#14. I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
James Taylor
#15. You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.
Ozzy Osbourne
#16. As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.
David Rubenstein
#18. I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
Sara Blakely
#19. A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Grown-up
Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#20. My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.
David Spade
#21. I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.
Alan Shearer
#22. I'll never retire from working; I'll keep my life interesting until I drop dead.
Cristina Saralegui
#23. Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
Octavia Spencer
#24. The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.
Kyle Busch
#25. But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows.
Stieg Larsson
#26. I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open, and retire to my living quarters. I will speak of this encounter to no one.
Alan Dean Foster
#27. Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
Charlie Gehringer
#28. I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey
#29. You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin
#30. Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
Twyla Tharp
#31. After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have decided to retire. It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.
Morley Safer
#32. I never use that word, retire.
B.B. King
#33. Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.
Serena Williams
#34. To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.
Joe Calzaghe
#36. I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.
Beyonce Knowles
#37. The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.
Oliver Hazard Perry
#38. After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'
Terry Goodkind
#39. Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
Chuck Palahniuk
#40. You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
Michael Caine
#41. And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
Tanya Tucker
#42. I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#43. I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
#44. Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#45. I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.
Terri Clark
#46. What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.
R. K. Laxman
#47. Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
Sharon Jones
#48. I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#49. Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
Daniel Boone
#50. I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
Jana Novotna
#51. Blues ain't football. You don't have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop
#52. I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!
Vinnie Vincent
#53. The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.
Richard Gough
#55. I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.
Max Lucado
#56. I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.
Cathy Freeman
#57. Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
Saint Francis De Sales
#58. Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch
#59. We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.
Timothy Noah
#60. When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.
Kin Hubbard
#61. Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.
Ernie J Zelinski
#62. Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
Red Adair
#63. We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.
John McNally
#64. The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.
Paul Ryan
#65. For most Americans, their primary aspiration is to achieve a better life ... to earn a livable wage in a good job. To have the time to spend with family and do the things they enjoy. To be able to retire with security. And to give their own kids a chance to do as well or better than themselves.
Marco Rubio
#66. All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW ... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire ... but NOW.
Susan Jeffers
#67. What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.
Stanley Bing
#68. gymnasts retire at 20, cricketers at 34, actresses at 32, actors at 75, salesmen at 50, other employees at 58 or 60 years, and doctors and lawyers when their bodies do not listen to their minds. Of course, one class beats them all - politicians retire at 90!
P.V. Subramanyam
#69. The way the team and the community embraced us when we first arrived, and the way they continue to do so, even today, shows how deep this connection is. I'm honored to be a part of this organization and so proud to retire as a New Orleans Saint.
Scott Fujita
#70. Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don't want to just retire. No, I enjoy it all and you just keep going until the day comes when you can't do it anymore. And that's what I want to do.
Anthony Hopkins
#71. I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
Pat Morita
#72. I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
Eric Cantona
#73. The Tonight Show didn't seem like an actual job that you could have. All you remember is you watched Johnny Carson, and you never thought he would retire.
Jimmy Fallon
#74. Actors don't retire. They just get offered fewer roles.
David Niven
#75. Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
Seneca The Younger
#76. I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.
Hank Johnson
#77. I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.
Srikumar Rao
#79. I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.
Nick Lachey
#80. I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
Usain Bolt
#81. Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.
Phillip Knightley
#82. We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.
Gordon Smith
#83. When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.
Jenson Button
#84. I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#86. I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.
Kevin Drew
#87. It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age ... What work will get done in the remaining time? ... Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end?
Eric Maisel
#88. I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.
Gordon Taylor
#89. Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.
Tony Gaskins
#90. We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
Carl Karcher
#91. I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.
Bette Davis
#92. Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
Friedrich Schiller
#93. In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
#94. I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.
Norman Rockwell
#95. I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.
Jeremy Taylor
#96. The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.
Thomas Jefferson
#97. Retire within yourselves; but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.
Michel De Montaigne
#98. Dont retire - inspire ... Theres a lot to be done
Mickey Rooney
#99. I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
#100. Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
Joan Hickson
