Retirement Quotes - Page 9

• A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.

  Arthur Helps

  Wise, Lonely, Loneliness

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, America, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Mean, Successful, Ponds

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.429, Transaction Publishers

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• Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Work, Holiday, Rejection

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• Every day that a woman is making less money, that's less money she has in retirement.

  Patricia Arquette

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.

  Thomas Sowell

  Reality, Years, Ivy

  "Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene". townhall.com. May 05, 2007.

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• Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

  Horace

  Struggle, Limits, Ends

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, Satire I, transl. by N. Rudd, v. 92-94, 2005.

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• The truth is, if you are a woman saving 10% of your income for retirement, and you put it in the bank account, your chances of retiring well - living on 90% of your pre-retirement income for your full life - is 0%.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Income, Saving, Chance

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

  Debbie Reynolds

  Force, Exhausting

  "Debbie Reynolds: The last 'Republic' interview". Interview with Randy Cordova, www.azcentral.com. December 28, 2016.

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• While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

  Chipper Jones

  Happy Life, Golfers, Speculation

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2013

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• Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do. If we begin to expand that, not only do we dilute the resources that are available, we begin to dilute things like health care, retirement, all the things offered to families that help them be a family.

  Sharron Angle

  Children, Home, Support

  "Angle’s position on working families draws criticism" by Laura Myers, www.reviewjournal.com. August 5, 2010.

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• The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fate, Choices, Language

  "Papa Hemingway". Book by A.E. Hotchner, pt. 3, ch.12, 1966.

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• Dana White came out very often in public saying I'm this and that; I'm sure it's also to play with my ego, to make me, for example, come out of retirement and say 'Oh ok, I'll fight for peanuts.' No, I'm not like that. I know the game.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, White, Games

  "Interview: A sit-down with Georges St-Pierre in Israel". Interview with Ram Gilboa, www.bloodyelbow.com. August 10, 2016.

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• Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills.

  George Karl

  Children, Skills, Childhood

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• Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.

  Alan M. Taylor

  Couple, Childhood, Challenges

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

  Prince Fielder

  Thinking, Years, Games

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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

  David Letterman

  Funny, Plans

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• The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Yield, Keys

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• It was pretty hard to actually have to say the words with my teammates, my wife and my boys there. I realized it was going to happen before that day [I announce retirement], but to have to announce it and talk about in front of a lot of people was tougher than I expected. I'm glad that feeling has kind of gone away. That sadness hasn't lingered.

  Prince Fielder

  Sadness, Boys, Gone Away

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund. In truth, the name of the column, "The Color of Money," has less to do with my race than the fact that the color of money is green and it's green we all need to live a good life.

  Michelle Singletary

  Good Life, Kids, College

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• He has been greatly missed since his retirement ... Thank God for videotapes and DVDs. In this regard, he will always be around.

  David Letterman

  God, Dvds, Regard

  "Celebs React to Carson's Death". www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2005.

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• I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Want, Noise, Too Much

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• How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Age, Crowns, Ease

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

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• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Children, Hollywood, Female

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• It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Long, Doe, Employment

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