A Quote by Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

Alfred Eisenstaedt

People say, 'Oh, so you should retire.' Yeah, you want me to retire so you won't get knocked out. I won't retire.

Vitor Belfort

If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.

Frederick Lenz

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Rick Warren

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

Denzel Washington

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

Alan Furst

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

Mark Cuban

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

Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

Caroll Spinney

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Sam Phillips

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.

Tommy Chong

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Stephan Pastis

Of course I can't retire on a win - but then, I can't retire on a loss either.

B. J. Penn

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.