Retiring Quotes

• Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Retirement, Live In The Moment, Want

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• You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Meaningful

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• 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

  Teacher, Retirement, Holiday

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Retirement, People, Merit

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• Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Ends, Retired

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• A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

  Ella Harris

  Retirement, Jobs, Husband

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• A man can't retire his experience.

  Bernard Baruch

  Retirement, Experience, Ciphers

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• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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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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• The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

  Phyllis Diller

  Retirement, Real, Golf

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• Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Retirement, Work, People

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• You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Joan Rivers

  Retirement, Fun, Aging

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• When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Retirement, Husband, Wife

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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Retirement, Business

  "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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• There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Jobs, Business

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

  Charles Kuralt

  Teacher, Retirement, Literature

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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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• Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

  Gene Perret

  Inspirational, Retirement, Stress

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• Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

  Gene Perret

  Retirement, Home, Forever

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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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• 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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