retirement quotes

26 quotes

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

Joe Biden

I will never retire unless I have to.

Dolly Parton

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Billy Graham

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Noam Chomsky

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Nelson Mandela

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Anthony Hopkins

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Barack Obama

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Billy Graham

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Nelson Mandela

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Russell M. Nelson

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Barack Obama

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Sunil Chhetri

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Barack Obama

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Joe Biden

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

Anthony Bourdain

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Fidel Castro

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Douglas MacArthur

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

Clint Eastwood

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

Clint Eastwood

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

Bob Uecker

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘

Clint Eastwood

If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors‘ and mutual fund managers‘ retirement.

Robert Kiyosaki

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Stephen Covey