Inspirational Retirement Quotes

• Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

  Margaret Mead

  Retirement, Retiring, Sooner Or Later

  Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

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• Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

  Gene Perret

  Retirement, Home, Forever

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• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

  Stephen Leacock

  Retirement, Autumn, Blow

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• I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

  Lyoto Machida

  Retirement, Thinking, Retiring

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Retirement

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• Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Senior, Retirement

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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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• For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

  John Sharp Williams

  Retirement, Judgment, Retiring

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• Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

  Charles Baxter

  Teacher, Retirement, Work

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

  Clarence Darrow

  Retirement, People, Habit

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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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• 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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• Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

  George Burns

  Retirement, Business, Aging

  George Burns (1986). “Dr. Burns' Prescription for happiness”, G K Hall & Co

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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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• I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

  Gene Perret

  Success, Retirement, Age

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• Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Retirement, Work, Age

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• Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Retirement, Work, People

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• Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Teacher, Retirement, Holiday

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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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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• 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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• As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Retirement, Successful

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Retirement, Years, Thirty

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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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