Top Ten Quotes on Retirement
Here you will find the top ten quotes on retirement. To retire is to finally start living life. To be able to do the things you want to do, when you want to do them, with whom you want to do them. We hope you find words of wisdom in these quotations. Share them with the new retiree.1. "It's with joy and sadness that we say farewell tonight. No one more loved or respected has earned this right." Charley D.
2. "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
3. "Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
4. "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
5. ""The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off." Abe Lemons
6. "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
7. "Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice."
Dianne Nahirny
8. "I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension!" Author Unknown
9. "There is life after retirement, and it is BETTER." Catherine Pulsifer
10. "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
Bill Watterson
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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
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."
Margaret Mead
"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
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it."
Bernard Baruch
"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
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Retirement, a time to enjoy all the things you never had time to do when you worked."
Catherine Pulsifer
"We have no porch, no rocking chair - and no time. My biggest need is a calendar because there are so many things to do. Now I encourage people to retire — the younger the better."
Maurice Musholt
"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."
Professor Scott Elledge
"A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell 'em to get a life."
Larry Laser
"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
"I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather."
Javier Perez De Cuellar
"Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache unless you play golf."
Gene Perret
"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."
Samuel Johnson
"While some people can’t wait until their retirement,
others feel cheated that they have to retire at all."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Work
"The money's no better in retirement but the hours are!
Author Unknown