Retirement Quotes

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.

Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

And I am in retirement from love.

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor, I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have? How much do I need? Let me send the rest to retirement."

I've enjoyed my retirement.

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money.

Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement.

I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.