Inspirational Retirement Quotes

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

Lyoto Machida

Retirement, Thinking, Retiring

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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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When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

R. C. Sherriff

Retirement, Work, Age

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

John Sharp Williams

Retirement, Judgment, Retiring

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

George Foreman

Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

A. A. Milne

Happiness, Being Happy, Retirement

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When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Retirement, Husband, Wife

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Ernest Hemingway

Retirement, Work, Age

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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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Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm Forbes

Retirement, Work, People

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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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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 is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

Jonathan Clements

Running, Retirement, Vacation

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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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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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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Abe Lemons

Retirement, Days Off, Trouble

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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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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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