Top 51 You're Retiring Quotes
#1. Do you know what I'm going to do when I retire? I hope to become the new face of Scientology.
David Letterman
#2. I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
Eve Bunting
#3. The question why did you retire is a much nicer one than why don't you retire
Mike Hawthorn
#4. Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over.
Michael Douglas
#5. I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.
Paul McCartney
#6. Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.
Soyen Shaku
#7. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.
Bel Kaufman
#8. If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.
Cassandra Peterson
#9. I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
Randy Moss
#10. I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
Thomas Jefferson
#11. Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
#12. I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.
Maria Sharapova
#13. Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
Paulo Coelho
#14. People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
Sylvester Stallone
#15. Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
Robert Breault
#16. I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life,
Haile Gebrselassie
#17. The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.
Joe Tye
#18. Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.
Denis Waitley
#19. Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
Anita Roddick
#20. When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?
Walter Wriston
#21. You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
Al Pacino
#22. Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson
#23. One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.
John Mackey
#24. Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.
Charles R. Swindoll
#25. Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.
Tony Gaskins
#26. I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix.
Ray Charles
#27. It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
Ozzy Osbourne
#28. Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.
Mark Shields
#29. Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.
Aristotle.
#30. The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?"
Clint Eastwood
#31. There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, "Now leave, so the men can come in" and there was this whole feminizing of women: You have to be very, very retiring and submissive and whatever.
Geena Davis
#32. I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.
Betty White
#33. I await the revises, and promise you not to 'make my quietus with a bare bodkin' till I have returned them. After that, I think of retiring. But first I would like to dine with you here. To leave life as one leaves a feast is not merely philosophy but romance.
Oscar Wilde
#34. It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you ...
Alex Zanardi
#35. Blues ain't football. You don't have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop
#36. You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
Michael Caine
#37. Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash
#38. 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
#39. I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.
Richard Lamm
#40. 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
#41. You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.
Ozzy Osbourne
#42. I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.
Junior Seau
#43. We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
Denzel Washington
#45. When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
Carolina Herrera
#46. Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?
Betty White
#47. You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong.
Morton Shaevitz
#48. Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
Daley Thompson
#49. I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
Rickey Henderson
#50. At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.
Herman Melville
#51. I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.
Jamie Ford
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