Top 100 To Retire Quotes
#1. You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.
Ozzy Osbourne
#2. I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.
Octavia Spencer
#3. You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.
Donald Driver
#4. They were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.
Douglas Adams
#5. It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
Joseph Jarman
#6. I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.
Alex Spanos
#7. Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#8. A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.
Brent Weeks
#9. I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.
Hal Holbrook
#10. Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
Joan Hickson
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. A well-read highwayman, who would have thought?" the dowager commented.
"Oh, he absolutely adores books. He plans to retire when he has enough money and furnish his library with hundreds of books. He has already started a collection by stealing all he can find off lords and such.
Anya Wylde
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
Yoko Ono
#17. Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.
Julius Boros
#18. Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee you one thing.. those who put an investment program in place will have a lot more money when they come to retire than those who never get around to it.
Noel Whittaker
#19. Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.
Jim Wallis
#20. My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else - I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.
Sascha Radetsky
#23. It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.
Pete Sampras
#24. What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
Sanford I. Weill
#25. I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.
Judi Dench
#26. Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
Caroll Spinney
#27. It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.
Shawn Johnson
#29. The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
George Foreman
#30. I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can create more jobs in this state, and the government's got an obligation to approve projects and to assess them for the benefit of the people of Queensland.
Clive Palmer
#31. I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
Gary Sheffield
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.
Kin Hubbard
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!
Vinnie Vincent
#45. Blues ain't football. You don't have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.
Terri Clark
#50. 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
#51. I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
#52. I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#53. 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
#54. To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.
Joe Calzaghe
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
Jack Nicklaus
#61. I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.
Clint Eastwood
#62. I'm going to retire undefeated. I'll take everybody out one-by-one then go on my merry way
Ronda Rousey
#63. Sixth graders had stopped asking "Now what?" and had started asking "So what?" She had not been sorry to retire when she did.
E.L. Konigsburg
#64. I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.
LaVell Edwards
#65. Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it ... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.
Alfred Molina
#66. Layla, darling, I shall be ready whenever you decide to retire to the country and commence on a life of unending debauchery.
Eloisa James
#67. I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.
David Beckham
#68. We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with God, some more, some less. He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then.
Brother Lawrence
#69. I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
Hugh Hefner
#70. The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.
Mark Cuban
#71. I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire ... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.
Jeremy Abbott
#72. I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.
Ozzy Osbourne
#73. I'm happy to be with this organization, and I hope to retire as a Yankee.
CC Sabathia
#74. It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
Peter O'Toole
#75. Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#76. If you ever think you have all the answers, it's time to retire.
Donalyn Miller
#77. I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
Bette Midler
#78. I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.
Paul Watson
#79. The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
Ernest Hemingway,
#80. If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets.
Robert Kiyosaki
#81. I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour.
Ruben Blades
#82. Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
Bill Copeland
#83. One theory here: the deanery is annoyed with our requests for parity and, weary of waiting for us to retire, has decided to kill us. Let the academic year begin!
Julie Schumacher
#85. A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore
#86. Stoner said to Finch, I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax.
John Edward Williams
#87. I love my fans, I love my music - I have no reason to retire.
LL Cool J
#88. When I lose my marbles which is never, when I lose my energy, I travel the world today for Viacom, China, Turkey, Dubai, Kuwait. When that happens, I'll know enough to retire, but that's never gonna happen. I'm here for forever.
Sumner Redstone
#89. When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.
Grete Waitz
#90. I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.
David Cassidy
#91. I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.
Colonel Sanders
#92. I've always said I never want to wear another uniform. I've always said that I owe it to the fans to retire as a Packer. I feel like I can still play, but if I can't play for my organization, then I can't play for anyone else.
Donald Driver
#94. You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.
Morgan Freeman
#95. I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'
Charles Barkley
#96. I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.
Carmelo Anthony
#98. I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven
Jacoby Jones
#99. 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
#100. We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
Denzel Washington
