Top 300 Retiring Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
All partnerships are doomed to die. Almost no partnership ever ended with neutrality and both people retiring at the same time.
Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.
I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
I have been thinking quite a lot about retiring... it is getting very difficult to be both a player and a manager.
It's extremely uncommon in sports to retire and have a show about you within eight months of retiring.
I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.
Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.
The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.
That's one reason India is an attractive proposition for retiring. Servants are much more reasonable than in England. It's not exploitation so long as you pay a proper salary.
I'll keep playing 'til the doctor tells me I can't play. I'm going to be Brett Favre: 'Yeah, I'm retiring... Naah, I'm coming back!'
I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.
Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.
As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.
I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.
Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.
Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.
Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.
I am 65 now and the world is just ahead of me at a time when most people are retiring.
I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.
When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.
I wouldn't consider retiring to India: there are too many people, and it's difficult walking along the pavements. I'd love to spend two or three months a year there.
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.
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.
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.
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
In an effort to devote more time, energy and focus to fewer projects, I've had to make some tough decisions, and one such decision was 'retiring' from 'Speakeasy.'
Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.
Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
This unfrequented place to find some ease.
I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt.
(on retiring from international football)
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.
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.
Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.
Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.
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 was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.
One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.
I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
