Retiring Quotes

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

Health, Simple, Exercise

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean Paul

Men, Woman, Others

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

Time, Try, Acting

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Paul Harvey

Dead, Practice, Practicing

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Milton Berle

Why, Company, Shy

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
Helena Bonham Carter

Change, Struggle, Frustrated

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash

Fun, Debts, None

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
Julia Roberts

Good, Made, Two

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
Billy Joel

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

Done, Once, Retire

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
Sylvester Stallone

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
Shawn Johnson

Great, Give, Tough

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?
Betty White

Work, Blessed, Why

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
Al Pacino

Age, Insecurity, Old

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.
Jeffrey Kluger

Nothing, Often, Listen

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
Mos Def

After, Actually, Name

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
James Herriot

Help, Young, Old

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.
Regis Philbin

Hope, Moving, Made

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.
Julie Walters

Life, Forward, Everything

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.
Mike Wallace

Else, Retired, Altogether

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham

Time, Good, End

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
Marat Safin

Why, Same, Times

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
Thierry Henry

Wanted, Stop, Stopping

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.
Junior Seau

Graduation, Today, Live

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini

Hard, Decision, Once

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.
Alan Jackson

Long, Able, Few

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
Rickey Henderson

Time, Baseball, Says

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

Experience, Science, Both

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
Tanya Tucker

Thought, Younger

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.
Chris Chocola

Enough, Able, System

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