Retirement Quotes - Page 6

• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  Abigail Adams

  Fruit, Lessons, Leisure

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.253, UPNE

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• Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!

  M.I.A.

  New Beginnings, Wonderful, Brands

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• Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Work, Age, Retiring

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Family, Class

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

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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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• I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.

  Marc Singer

  Mistake, Believe, Cat

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• Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Fun, Age, Middle

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• No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.

  William J. Bernstein

  Airplane, Thinking, Two

  "Behavioral Finance And Indexing". Interview with Murray Coleman, www.etf.com. June 12, 2008.

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Life, Being Happy

  Imitation of Horace bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 (1685)

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• Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

  Marc Singer

  Successful, Organization, Decision

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• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Uplifting, Thinking

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• [Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Ends, Dangerous, Experiments

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• Congratulations on your well deserved retirement,
  Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead.
  No lying about your age, more lying around the house
  After lying much longer in bed

  John Walter Bratton

  Lying, Congratulations, Years

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• I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.

  Mickey Rooney

  Inspirational, Moving On, Inspire

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• If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Future, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 27, 2016

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• Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!

  Esther Hicks

  Life, Jobs, Attitude

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• Come,
  Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
  All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
  Let's mock the midnight bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Night, Bells

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 182

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• The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

  Rick Danko

  Play, Together, Pockets

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Wine, Old Friends, Age

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.

  Harold George Koenig

  Spiritual, Vision, Important

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• If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Humble, Government, Steel

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

  Paul Tournier

  Years, Giving, Age

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

  Lord Byron

  Mind, World, Earth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics

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• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Memories, Careers

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