Retiring Quotes

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. (Harriet Martineau)
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make. View quote
Gabriela Sabatini
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. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history. View quote
Keith Richards
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. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring. View quote
Justin Bieber
I love being Dr. Ruth, so I have never thought of retiring. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. View quote
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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)
Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. View quote
Aaron Peirsol
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. View quote
Chris Chocola
I'm retiring because my time is up. View quote
Dave Hickey
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. View quote
Ian Botham
Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring. View quote
Jim Bunning
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. View quote
Junior Seau
I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court. View quote
Rebecca Lobo
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. View quote
Regis Philbin
When I was younger, I thought about retiring. View quote
Tanya Tucker
Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. (Ted Knight)
My happy disposition completely changed after Mamma's death. I, once so full of life, became timid and retiring, sensitive to an excessive degree. One look was enough to reduce me to tears, and the only way I was content was to be left completely alone. I could not bear the company of strangers and found my joy only within the intimacy of the family. View quote
Thérèse of Lisieux
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I don't know why people thought I was retiring. View quote
Billy Joel
I am retiring. I have a mission, and it is coming to an end ... France may still one day need an image that is pure. She must be left this image. If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc. View quote
Charles de Gaulle