Retiring Quotes
449 Retiring quotes by 394 unique authors
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are…
— Erica Jong
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
— Omar Khayyam
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Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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I don't intend to retire.
— Bobby Knight
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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…
— Richard Lamm
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
— Loretta Lynn
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I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
— Nelson Mandela
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I don't want to retire. I still want to play.
— Peyton Manning
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
— Paul McCartney
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
— Margaret Mead
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I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a…
— Lionel Messi
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
— Thomas Moore
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good…
— Elon Musk
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When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.
— Graham Norton
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I need to retire from retirement.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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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:…
— Peter O'Toole
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I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They…
— Barack Obama
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
— Yoko Ono
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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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…
— Al Pacino
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I will die, but not retire.
— Michael Palin
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
— Jean Paul
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Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.
— Michael Phelps
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I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a…
— Regis Philbin
Who Wrote These Retiring Quotes
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