Retiring Quotes
449 Retiring quotes by 394 unique authors
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When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who…
— W. Allen Wallis
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When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man
— Eddie Arcaro
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I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
— Shirley Bassey
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Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.
— Douglas Crockford
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When I retire, I don't want to just move to some island somewhere. I want to be the guy who gives it all back. I…
— Michael Scott
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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…
— Soyen Shaku
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are…
— Gary Gygax
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I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.
— Mickey Rooney
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Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.
— Bob Goff
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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.…
— Denis Waitley
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Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of…
— Muhammad Ali
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For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm…
— Drew Bledsoe
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Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.
— Tony Gaskins
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The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?
— Woody Hayes
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I love cricket and I have no intention to retire
— Shahid Afridi
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Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator…
— John Fund
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Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost…
— Helen Garner
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To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.
— Joe Calzaghe
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Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into…
— Thomas Merton
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get…
— Wilkie Collins
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I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very…
— Betty Ford
Who Wrote These Retiring Quotes
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