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Quotes About Retirement

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.
~ Diane Watson
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.
~ Terri Guillemets
I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.
~ Terry Bradshaw
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.
~ Theresa May
I got out of the Navy in 1990.
~ Rudy Boesch
Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
~ Charles Kennedy
After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.
~ Tzipi Livni
When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
~ Darren Flutie
I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.
~ Anjelica Huston
I greatly appreciate that people would like to see me have one more match or comeback or, 'Daniel Bryan got cleared, so why can't you?' I will never be cleared. Mine is a completely different injury. He had neck issues, but it wasn't his neck issues that retired him, actually. It was the concussion issues.
~ Edge
There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.
~ Jamie Carragher
You can never say never in this game, but I can't see myself boxing again. There's loads of things I want to do.
~ Joe Calzaghe
Never take a loan against your retirement! When you pay interest against your retirement, you cost yourself interest.
~ Dave Ramsey
I came here and actually fell in love with Charlotte and the Hornets. That's exactly what happened to me. I found a new way of motivation. Charlotte basically extended my career for the next seven years. I was thinking of retiring. I was 30 and played seven more years after that, just because basketball felt different here in Charlotte.
~ Vlade Divac
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
~ Robert MacNeil
I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.
~ Sam Neill
I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
~ J. J. Watt
I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.
~ Bob Newhart
I have no intention of running for office again.
~ George Allen
There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring.
~ Robin Leach
I watched a lot of drunk players, too, I learned from the autobiographies published after they had retired.
~ Nick Hornby
And you know why I didn't get those scans?" He looked back at the blanket-draped figure. "I was scared of dying. Terrified. Didn't want to face it. Didn't want to acknowledge it might happen—that I'd be forced to retire, confined to a hospital bed and get bed sores all over my ass. And then, boom. Nothing. No thoughts. No feeling. No existing. Just ... nothing.
~ Nick Webb