Retiring Quotes
If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?
There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.
When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.
I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.
I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.
It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.
As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.
You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.
I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.
I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.
I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30
I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.
I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.
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.
A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.
Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.
