Quotation Explorer - 'Retire'

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 drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. - Samuel Johnson
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.
O Holy Spirit, give me a simple heart which will not retire within itself to savor its own sorrows, a heart magnanimous in giving itself, easily moved to compassion, a faithful, generous heart, which does not forget any favor received nor hold resentment for any injuries done to it. - Leonce de Grandmaison
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young. - Fidel Castro
My Dad once told me: you will retire only in your grave! ; I wish he is alive to ask him when I will retire searching for my grave! - Hisham Fawzi
I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
doesn't wait to be told there's a need, it sees. never justifies a wrong, it repents. cannot retire, it has much to much work to do. - Pazaria Smith
Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas. - Poonam Parihar
Soldiers are not trained for retire - Bimo Satriyo
Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. - Horace
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. - Adriaan Kortlandt
two great questions exist in each day; 'what must I do excellently today?' for morning and 'what did I do wrong or right today?' for evening. When we fail to know the real reasons why we wake up each day and why we retire at night, we fail to know the real reasons why we live. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot. - James Salter
She gave thee beauty—blush of fire, That bids the flames of war retire! Woman! be fair, we must adore thee; Smile, and a world is weak before thee! - Anacreon - 485 BC
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