Retirement Quotes

"It's with joy and sadness that we say farewell tonight
No one more loved or respected has earned this right."
Charley D.

"Working people have alot of bad habits,
But the worst of these is work."
Clarence Darrow

"RETIREMENT - now life begins."
Catherine Pulsifer

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill

"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it."
Bernard Baruch

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
Sir J. Lubbock

"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."
Robert Half

"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."
Margaret Mead

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

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
Doug Larson

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
George Bernard Shaw

"Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it."
Gene Perret

"Tire but never retire.
Quotes on Work by M. K. Soni

"While some people can’t wait until their retirement, others feel cheated that they have to retire at all.."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Authors Introduction to Wings for Work

"There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it "retirement." I call it bliss."
Betty Sullivan

"I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension!"
Author Unknown

"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

"There is life after retirement, and it is BETTER."
Catherine Pulsifer

"There are so many other interesting ways to spend your time. I feel like early retirement is a gift, but it's such an incredible gift. It's a gift I need to use."
Martha Felt-Bardon

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

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

"A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service."
Harry Mahtar

"Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne upon them."
Brendan Francis

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
Bill Watterson

R etire, now it is your time to:
e xperience all that life has to offer,
t ake time to smell the roses,
i nvestigate your hobbies,
r evitalize your dreams, and,
e mbark on a new way of life!
Catherine Pulsifer

"I wish that I had read this book 20 years ago; perhaps I would now be retired if I had implemented his thinking."
The Secret of Success

"Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice."
Dianne Nahirny

"May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."
Irish Blessing

Seize the Day Every moment is an opportunity for those who are ready to seize it.