Inspirational Retirement Quotes

• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  Gail Sheehy

  Funny, Witty, Teacher

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Retirement, Live In The Moment, Want

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Retirement, Business

  "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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  Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Music, Retirement

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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• Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

  George Burns

  Funny, Teacher, Witty

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• 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.

  Bernard Baruch

  Teacher, Retirement, Numbers

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• Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

  Gene Perret

  Inspirational, Retirement, Stress

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• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Burden, Retiring

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• Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

  Charles Baxter

  Teacher, Retirement, Work

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• Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

  Douglas Pagels

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

  John Anthony West

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

  Mason Cooley

  Retirement, Way, Retiring

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• To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Long, Today

  "Suze Orman: Are you making these financial mistakes?". Article by Suze Orman, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

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• I still find each day too short.

  John Burroughs

  Thinking Of You, Retirement, Short Life

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

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• Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

  Clarence Darrow

  Retirement, People, Habit

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• I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

  Bette Davis

  Sexy, Retirement, Funny Inspirational

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• Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

  Stephen Hawking

  Retirement, Years, Thirty

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• Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

  Henny Youngman

  Teacher, Teaching, Assessment

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• How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Age, Crowns

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

  Richard Davies

  Retirement, Golf, Weekend

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