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Famous Retirement Speech Quotes

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. β€” R. C. Sherriff

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way. β€” Betty White

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. β€” Stephen Covey

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important. β€” Fernando Torres

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired. β€” Frank Serpico

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. β€” Gene Perret

Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired. β€” Naval Ravikant

Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance. β€” Chris Hogan

When you retire, people don’t look at how good you became. They look at what you’ve won. We remember the winners. β€” Kylian Mbappe

I'm retired from the daredevil business. β€” Felix Baumgartner

You retire by saving up enough money, becoming a monk, or by finding work that feels like play to you. β€” Naval Ravikant

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. β€” Abe Lemons

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. β€” Rick Warren

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. β€” Martin Van Buren

Best of luck in your future endeavors! - CM Punk

Best of luck in your future endeavors! β€” CM Punk

Being Retired Quotes

The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil. β€” Saint John Chrysostom

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits! β€” Paula White

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. β€” Jerry Garcia

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being. β€” Farid al-Din Attar

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. β€” Richard M. Nixon

Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us. β€” Lauryn Hill

Be authentic to escape competition, find what you know how to do better than anybody because you love to do it and it feels like play, and get to retirement. β€” Naval Ravikant

Investing is not about being right all the time; it is about being patient and disciplined. β€” Gautam Baid

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. β€” Samuel Johnson

Diversification is a risk-reduction tool, but it should not be used as a substitute for thorough research and understanding. β€” Gautam Baid

Retirement Quotes

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. β€” William Arthur Ward

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. - Louis Armstrong

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. β€” Louis Armstrong

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. β€” Emily Dickinson

This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. β€” Herman Edwards

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. β€” Ann Landers

One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. β€” Edward O. Thorp

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth β€” Mason Cooley

Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations. β€” Chris Voss

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement. β€” Steve Bartlett

Many people achieve success, but to sustain the same over an entire lifetime requires humility, gratitude, and a constant learning mind-set. β€” Gautam Baid

Retiring Quotes

On promoting green transition β€” Xi Jinping

Who does not live to serve does not serve to live. β€” Mexican Proverbs

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. β€” Lord Chesterfield

Investors should focus on the process rather than the outcome. Over time, a good process will lead to favorable outcomes. β€” Gautam Baid

Cheap is expensive. β€” Mexican Proverbs

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. - Omar Khayyam

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. β€” Omar Khayyam

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. β€” Mary Landrieu

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. β€” George Burns

No flies enter a closed mouth. β€” Mexican Proverbs

Chuck Liddell loves to fight. That's his passion. That's what he loves in life. But there comes a day and age - fighting is a young man's game. β€” Dana White

Speech Quotes

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap. β€” Hildegard of Bingen

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. β€” Winston Churchill

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. β€” Confucius

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. β€” Soren Kierkegaard

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. β€” Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech - Idi Amin

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech β€” Idi Amin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. β€” Benjamin Franklin

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. β€” Peter Drucker

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. β€” Ambrose Bierce

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ? β€” Billy Graham

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More Retirement Speech Quotes

When one door closes, another one opens. β€” Alexander Graham Bell

I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory. β€” Liz Truss

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. β€” Earl Nightingale

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. β€” Gene Perret

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. β€” Laurence J. Peter

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

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. β€” Malcolm Forbes

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. β€” Joan Rivers

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. β€” Gene Perret

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. β€” Gene Perret

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens. β€” Charles Taylor Manatt

The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind. β€” Anthony Holden

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made. β€” William Shakespeare

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech. β€” Ben Jonson

Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself. β€” William Francis Henry King

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