Loretta Lynn Quotes

God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

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

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

I don't hate the idea of retirement. I am looking forward to it.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

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

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

I don't know the right way to retire.

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

To retire is to begin to die.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.

I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.

The decision to retire was very easy. The timing had come to the point where it was very clear that my time was up.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

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

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.