People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.
You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.
The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.
It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.
Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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