Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired. — Naval Ravikant
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way. — Betty White
I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to. — Guy Forget
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. — R. C. Sherriff
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. — Stephen Covey
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. — George Foreman
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley
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. — Fernando Torres
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. — Richard M. Nixon
I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week. — Vince McMahon
Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance. — Chris Hogan
Short Retiring Quotes
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. — Jerry Garcia
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
On promoting green transition — Xi Jinping
Who does not live to serve does not serve to live. — Mexican Proverbs
Cheap is expensive. — Mexican Proverbs
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. — Omar Khayyam
Investing is not about being right all the time; it is about being patient and disciplined. — Gautam Baid
The foundation of healthy independence is a securely attached relationship. — Amir Levine
Retiring Image Quotes
When you stop living at work and start working at living - retirement.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing — A. A. Milne
I'm Retiring Quotes
It’s just been fantastic, from start to finish… I’m just truly elated, just the smells of Earth are so strong, it’s wonderful to be back… to feel the fresh air. — Tim Peake
Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn’t matter. I’m a fighter, and I’m ready to fight every time. — Valentina Shevchenko
If I’m going to play, I’m going to have to give it 100%, which means I’m going to have to play in all of the tournaments that I don’t like. — Stephen Hendry
I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out. — Harry Kane
Every day that I’m alive, I’ma ride with the stick I’d rather be broke in jail than be dead and rich. — 21 Savage
I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is. — 21 Savage
I’m not bullish on any one asset class, I’m bullish on the future. — Raoul Pal
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. — Red Adair
I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I’m nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that. — Paul Pogba
I Am Retiring Quotes
I can’t even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me. — Holly Holm
I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out. — Harry Kane
I am not too much into Netflix and Amazon because spending quality time with family is more valuable. — Smriti Mandhana
I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. — Elliot Page
I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I’m doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It’s my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am. — Valentina Shevchenko
I don’t know what I did in my life to get so lucky, but I am full of gratitude for the precious opportunity to live the life of my dreams. — Chatri Sityodtong
I was not keen on fitness before injury and now I am very keen on fitness. — Smriti Mandhana
I am professional. If I am on the field, I am 100 per cent focused on that. Off the field, I switch off. — Smriti Mandhana
I am happy, and I am living the life I always dreamed of. — Kylian Mbappe
Teacher Retiring Quotes
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. — Karl A. Menninger
Casino gambling with a system where you have the edge is a wonderful teacher for elementary money management. — Edward O. Thorp
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. — H. G. Wells
There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly. — Lola J. May
My dad’s a teacher and a football coach, and he found a job in New Jersey. — Sadie Sink
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung
The children are now working as if I did not exist. — Maria Montessori
I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather. — Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself. — Evelyn Waugh
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. — 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! — Paula White
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. — Farid al-Din Attar
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. — 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. — Naval Ravikant
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. — Samuel Johnson
Diversification is a risk-reduction tool, but it should not be used as a substitute for thorough research and understanding. — Gautam Baid
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp
I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be. — Folorunsho Alakija
I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model. — Peggy Whitson
Retirement Age Quotes
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. — Ann Landers
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. — Dana White
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. — George Burns
Optimistic young adults stay healthier throughout middle age and, ultimately, live longer than pessimists. — Angela Duckworth
I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
It felt like the most natural thing in the world to do [to fly a plane at age 6]. — Edward Higgins White
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. — Joseph Addison
I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks. — Alan Sillitoe
Retire me to my Milan, where
Every third thought shall be my grave. — William Shakespeare
I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I’ll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Never Retire Quotes
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. — Rick Warren
In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes. — Koos Bekker
Once you have a plan, always invest within the boundaries and parameters of your plan. Never bend your rules to accommodate your guts. — Naved Abdali
I always had a lot of ideas, and I never thought I couldn’t do something. If you have a good idea and you believe in it, you just go for it. — Glen Bell
Never promote someone who hasn’t made some bad mistakes, because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything. — Philip Arthur Fisher
I’ve never been afraid to just speak my mind and just do what I want to do. — KSI
I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches – I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works. — Meghan Markle
Everyday hit every wave, like I’m Hawaiian. I don’t surf the net, no I’ve never been on MySpace, too busy letting my voice vibrate, carving out my space in this world. — Jay-Z
If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is – almost never. — Philip Arthur Fisher
I’m never trying to break a career high out there. — Kawhi Leonard
Retirement Years Quotes
Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day. — Vijay Kedia
Market history is filled with examples of companies that returned over 100x on an initial investment. The difficulty is in finding and holding on to those companies over many years. — Thomas Phelps
I put a lot of meaning into what will go on my skin and be there for all of my years of life. — Valentina Shevchenko
If something is not going to be an obvious double in a short period of time – you know, 2 to 3 years – I have to show interest. — Howard S. Marks
I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game. — Kawhi Leonard
I’ve been in martial arts for so many years, so to hold the belt of UFC and be on top of the biggest organization, it will be represented in this belt. — Valentina Shevchenko
A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame. — Ellyse Perry
I try to be a complete player – in attack and in defense – and to improve every year. — Antoine Griezmann
Essentially, I’m a 21-year-old who’s a millionaire through gaming, vlogging, and my online experience. Yo, I’ll take it! — KSI
Retired Teacher Quotes
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. — Gene Perret
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. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Old teachers never die, they just grade away. — Henny Youngman
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too. — Charles Baxter
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. — Gene Perret
Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been. — John Anthony West
The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart. — Anne Michaels
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential. — Mason Cooley
Teacher Retirement Quotes
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire! — Groucho Marx
In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. — Gene Perret
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret
At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. — Mason Cooley
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. — Ella Harris
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. — Chris Christie
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! — Thom Gunn
I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. — Gene Perret
One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong. — R. H. Tawney
I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure. — Martina Navratilova
I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security — Dave Barry
I wish Kylian to have the same career as Thierry Henry. — Didier Deschamps
People will laugh at me, but when they ask me to make a wish for the next life, I will say I want the same parents, same brother and sister, same wife, same friends. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from. — Tommy Chong
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. — Earl Nightingale
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 kills more people than hard work ever did. — Malcolm Forbes
Ready To Retire Quotes
I know the UFC’s a big organization, the best athletes and fighters are here, so… every third or fourth month, I’m ready to fight. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
When I touch Ronda, I’ll always try to get the knockout. But if we go to the ground, I’ll be ready for anything. — Amanda Nunes
I was excited by YouTube again and ready to start a music career. — KSI
We are absolutely ready to go to Mars. It’s going to be a fantastic journey getting there and very exciting times. — Peggy Whitson
Going to space doesn’t make you an astronaut. Being an astronaut means you’re ready to go to space. — Michael J. Massimino
If you propose something, you’d better be ready to run it. — Michael J. Massimino
In a game, you never know what chance you’re going to get, so I try and cover all bases and make sure I’m ready for that chance when it comes. — Harry Kane
As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years. — David Rubenstein
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm. — Andre Maurois
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. — Gloria Swanson
Time To Retire Quotes
Investors should focus on the process rather than the outcome. Over time, a good process will lead to favorable outcomes. — Gautam Baid
The moon is a very nice place. When we landed, we were 20 minutes behind. Because time on the Moon was so precious, what I remember most is trying to catch up. — John Young
I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time – I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked. — Holly Holm
I’m not going to the past, and it’s not tied to me, every time moving forward, and this is more important – to move forward every time. — Valentina Shevchenko
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. — Shannon Alder
I don’t even remember a time when I didn’t want to be an astronaut. I’ve always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. — Christina Koch
The good news is that in business, you only need to hit one Grand Slam Offer to retire forever. I have done this four or five times in my life. — Alex Hormozi
To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind. — Mary Berry
And that’s the point — why we’re here planting trees. It takes a long time to grow these systems and build these systems up. — Charles Hoskinson
Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. — Mary Berry
Good Retirement Quotes
For a group to be great, both good governance and excellent execution are required. It’s not one or the other. — Koos Bekker
Investment success doesn’t come from ‘buying good things, but rather from ‘buying things well.’ — Howard S. Marks
Life is all about sharing. If we are good at something, pass it on. That is the pleasure I get from teaching – whether it is television or books. We should all share. — Mary Berry
Marketing is about telling good stories. Social media marketing is about getting your customers to tell them for you. — Ryan Deiss
I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success. — Mary Berry
Even if I ain’t the famous-est, the richest, the best – as long as I know I kept it real and didn’t backstab nobody – I sleep good at night. — 21 Savage
In the stock market a good nervous system is even more important than a good head. — Philip Arthur Fisher
If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don’t need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad – because I know it. — Paul Pogba
Most investors are too eager to sell a good position with a small profit rather than hold on for a larger gain. — Thomas Phelps
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. — Ruben Hinojosa
I Want To Retire Quotes
When I started Taco Bell, I wasn’t thinking about creating an empire; I just wanted to make a living doing something I enjoyed. — Glen Bell
I started with Bitcoin and I left Bitcoin not because I was pushed out… I left Bitcoin because there’s no way to use Bitcoin to do the things that I wanted to do. — Charles Hoskinson
I may not be ‘the prettiest’ or have ‘big boobies,’ but I want people to remember me as the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I want to be remembered for just being myself and doing what I want to do. — KSI
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman. — Diane Von Furstenberg
I wanted to be my own boss and God knows I wanted to travel. — Cliff Lerner
I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I want to stay humble, but I have to talk because the other guys talk too much, and I understand the crazy power the UFC PR machine has. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
What I would like to say is make sure you know what you really want to do and do it. And also I want to say, if not now then when? — Lisa Manoban
I figure if a farmer’s daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be. — Peggy Whitson
Retirement Farewell Quotes
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. — George Washington
Retirement: a time to become much more than you have ever been. — Ernie J Zelinski
I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap — Lyoto Machida
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. — George Washington
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. — Donald E. Westlake
When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. — Gene Perret
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made. — William Shakespeare
It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay. — Abraham Lincoln
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. — William Arthur Ward
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. — 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. — Herman Edwards
The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that. — Chance the Rapper
Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. — Edward O. Thorp
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. — Chris Voss
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement. — Steve Bartlett
Many people achieve success, but to sustain the same over an entire lifetime requires humility, gratitude, and a constant learning mind-set. — Gautam Baid
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. — Lord Chesterfield
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. — Mary Landrieu
In almost any salaried job, even at one that’s paying a lot per hour like a lawyer, or a doctor, you’re still putting in the hours, and every hour you get paid. So, what that means is when you’re sleeping, you’re not earning. When you’re retired, you’re not earning. When you’re on vacation, you’re not earning. And you can’t earn non-linearly. — Naval Ravikant
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. — Primo Levi
In 2012, when the European financial bailouts, to keep Greece afloat and in the euro currency zone, began and demands for Greek austerity measures were made, the geographical divide soon became obvious. The donors and demanders were the northern countries, the recipients and supplicants mostly southern. It didn’t take long for Germans to point out that they were working until 65 but paying taxes that were going to Greece so people could retire at 55. — Tim Marshall
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. — Victor Frankl
I don’t sit around thinking about my titles and roles; I just do what feels right. — Meghan Markle
Whatever you’re doing, think fifty steps ahead. — 21 Savage
Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don’t stay broke. — Isaac Mashman
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