Retiring Quotes - Page 5

• A man can't retire his experience.

  Bernard Baruch

  Retirement, Experience, Ciphers

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

  Retirement, Drinking, Book

  "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Retirement, Work, People

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• Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

  Margaret Mead

  Retirement, Sooner Or Later, Retired

  Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

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• Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Senior, Retirement

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• Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

  Charles Kuralt

  Teacher, Retirement, Literature

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• There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

  Groucho Marx

  Retirement, Work, Age

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", August 20, 1930.

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• There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Nature, Retirement, Kindness

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

  Thierry Henry

  Retirement, Stopping, Wanted

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• ...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wise, Age, Employment

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• I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

  Bel Kaufman

  Teaching, Writing, Long

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• We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed in President Reagan. That's the kind of President Ronald Reagan was. He helped our country win the Cold War. He put it behind us in a way no one ever believed would be possible. He was truly a great American leader. And those of us in the Armed Forces loved him, respected him, and tremendously admired him for his great leadership.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, War, Winning

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• When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Couple, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

  Ray Allen

  Somewhere Else, Choices, Made

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• Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Meaningful, Jobs

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

  Steve Yzerman

  Mean, Play, Knees

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• Photography is not something you retire from.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography

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• I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Retirement, Retired

  "A Rickey Reunion?". Interview with Susan Slusser, www.sfgate.com. May 18, 2007.

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• I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Heaven, Temperature

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• I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspiring, Adults, Want

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• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  Dave Allen

  Running, Sleep, Giving

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• I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

  Patience Jonathan

  Husband, Home, Good Luck

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