Retire Quotes

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

I don't intend to retire.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

Actors can't retire. What would they do?

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.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

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.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

I'm never going to retire.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

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

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.

But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.