Retirement Quotes and Sayings Page 2
“Retirement doesn’t epitomize inefficiency and oldness. Rather, it accurately represents a reward for those who have worked hard to make ends meet and to provide for a family.” Adrian J.Williams, Retirement: The Ultimate Retirement Planning Guide!
Family
“For younger people, the dream of a full-stop retirement is becoming less and less attainable. If the official ‘retirement’ age keeps rising, young people being told to save for their old age will likely throw up their hands.” Mike Drak, Victory Lap Retirement
Dream
You should enjoy your retirement and do all of those things that you promised your spouse you’d do after you retired. Think about all those trips you planned and all those places you wanted to see.John T. Cross, How to Enrich Your Retirement
Long Quotes About Life
“When you are suddenly available 24/7, you can spend more time with your family and friends. This is good. You’ve no doubt looked forward to having more free time and there are endless opportunities available to you and your loved ones.” Olivia Greenwell, So You’ve Retired
Time
One size does not fit all in retirement. Your unique personality determines those things that bring positive energy into your life. If you can identify those activities that feel natural and pleasurable, you will start down a path that brings joy to yourself and others. Mark Evan Chimsky, 65 Things To Do When You Retire
Positive Energy
“When you retire, you’re faced with a possibility for renewal and reinvention that is basically unequaled in any other transition in your life. It’s up to you to decide what your goals are and how you’re going to achieve them.” Sid Miramontes, Retirement: Your New Beginning
Goals
“We were short on female role models in the world of work, and we’ll be equally short on female role models for retirement. Margaret Hovanec, Redefining Retirement
Strong Women Quotes
“The joys of retirement can be enjoyed here and now. You can pursue your passions, live your dreams and enjoy life while you are still working.” Rand Bennett, Take a Mini-Retirement
Joy
He (Andrew Carnegie) had entered retirement intending to devote all his time and efforts to his philanthropy. But his last years were consumed with another cause: world peace. David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie
Peace
“In many cultures, there’s a construct called retirement in which people are expected to alter their activities dramatically after a certain age.” Vishen Lakhiani, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
Age
Many retirees start their own businesses after they retire, either because they need the money or because it’s something they want to do…Your business can be consulting, selling art or crafts, running a flea market booth, training, speaking, freelance writing, or just about anything you can imagine. Dave Hughes, Smooth Sailing into Retirement
Money
“Because we can picture it, we will work for it, save for it, sacrifice for it. There’s nothing wrong with retirement, but it only lasts a few decades at best.” John Burke, Imagine Heaven
Life and Death
“There is not a single healthy retired person I know who does not still work to one extent or another – even if he or she does not need the money, including me! Why? Because even if you don’t need the money, you still need the work!” Wallace R.Curiel, THRIFTCRAFT – How to Work Less, Live More, and Retire at Any Age Sooner Than You Ever Dreamed Possible!
Work
Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself. Hartman Jule
Beautiful
… recent decades have seen a transformation in the possibilities that are ushered in by retirement, at least in Western society. Improvements in life expectancy mean that, for most of us, there will typically be 15�20 years available for quality living before we truly recede. Derek Milne, The Psychology of Retirement
Possibilities
“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
Holiday
If you want to retire early, you have to figure out the relationship between money and happiness. I truly believe this is the key – and it has the power to unlock the retirement of your dreams. Wes Moss, You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think
Relationship
“You’ve probably worked most of your life to reach the coveted milestone known as retirement, which, up to now, has always been a faint light at the end of a long tunnel. The passageway you’ve traveled has finally come to the end, and the previously dim goal has turned into a gloriously bright beacon, shining directly on YOU.” Olivia Greenwell, So You’ve Retired
Inspirational Quotes
“Those of us born between 1946 and 1964 are the demographic time bomb: whatever we do has always been the Next Big Thing. And what we’re going to do next is retire, en masse.” Margaret Hovanec, Redefining Retirement
Quote of The Day
The loss of the power of taking exercise would be a sore affliction to me. It has been the delight of my retirement to be in constant bodily activity, looking after my affairs. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Famous
“Is your future brighter than your past? Imagine what it’s going to be like not to have to work anymore. Do you envision your retirement as a time that will surpass your working years in fulfillment and meaning?” Sid Miramontes, Retirement: Your New Beginning
Meaningful
Retirement is one of life’s most defining moments. It can be a bittersweet time for some because we all need to come to terms with our aging selves and recognize that life as we know it will dramatically change, hopefully for the better, and that we are on a slippery slope to “old age,” whatever that means to us. Rick Steiner Ph.D., Retirement: Different by Design
Birthday
The world of retirement is changing rapidly, like never before. Because people are living longer, with hundred-year lifespans becoming commonplace, this will have a huge impact on how we view work, education, and retirement in the years ahead – especially as people are not just living longer, they are also more active and vibrant in their later years than used to be typical. Mike Drak, Victory Lap Retirement
Change
“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
Famous Quotes about Life
“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
Quotes to Live By
“While some people can’t wait until their retirement, others feel cheated that they have to retire at all.” Catherine Pulsifer, Wings for Work
Attitude
“Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne upon them.” Brendan Francis
Truth
“I wish that I had read this book 20 years ago; perhaps I would now be retired if I had implemented his thinking.” C Pulsifer, Book Review – Secret of Success
Thinking
“Happiness takes on many forms and is subject to as many definitions. Some people say they will be truly happy when they finally retire, or if they were to win the lottery, or if they finally get that promotion they have been working towards for years.” Byron Pulsifer, Recipe For Happiness
Happy
“Establishing new schedules and routines is a great way to make the transition into retirement easier and help seniors find a new path forward.” Samantha Westwood, Rise and Shine!
Top Ten Retirement Quotes
I have fulfilled my dreams and aspirations in competitive skating, and it is now time to move on to new challenges and opportunities.Patrick Chan, Three-time Olympic medalist
Sports
Once the mindless myths associated with aging are dispelled, people of traditional retirement age must learn to identify the purpose they can pursue with a passion. Helen L. Harkness
Learning
“Retired workers can now expect to live much longer than they did in earlier generations. In 1900, the average length of retirement was just one year, and it was usually accompanied by physical debility and decline.” Margaret Hovanec, Redefining Retirement
Inspirational Sayings
“Creating your semi-retirement can be the best thing you ever do for yourself. Start by envisioning what you’d like your life to be like, if you only had more time.” Robert Clyatt, Work Less, Live More, The Way to Semi-Retirement
Inspirational Poems
“No doubt excellent health is an important asset. Nonetheless, many retirees with health problems are still able to enjoy their leisure time and life in general.” Ernie J. Zelinski, The Joy of Not Working
Health
“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.” John Sharp Williams
Kindness
“Think of retirement as the opposite but equally unhealthy extreme on the other side of being in a perpetual state of high stress and anxiety. Just as it’s not healthy to overwork yourself, it’s also not healthy to not work at all.” Linda Westwood, Healthy Habits Vol 3
Stress
“You know that retirement is coming. It isn’t as though it just shows up one day and takes you by surprise, so you need to get ready for it.” Batya Shevich, Warren Buffett: To Be Rich And Successful Is Easy!
Success
“Living frugally now however, can help you start your very own retirement plan for the future.” Ricky Gomez, Frugal Living
Future
“About one-third of men and 12 percent of women who retire from their breadwinning occupation return to work within six months. Some by choice, others by default.” Ronald J. Manheimer, Ph.D.
Choices
“Are you ready to retire? Only one person can answer that question – YOU! Please don’t leave that important decision to your spouse, your co-workers, or your family � it is your choice when to retire and how to travel down that retirement path.” Wendy S. Fisher, Retirement Planning: Ready to UN-Retire?
Decision
“Make a plan of how your future is going to look like. Make a smart investment portfolio so that you won’t have to worry about your retirement.” John McQuilkin, Insecurity
Smart
“There is so much talk about pension funds depleting and people living longer, however, putting monies away for retirement is still a good investment.” Eunice Tawney, Getting out of Debt
Good
I started soon after I retired… Having more free time and fewer things I have to do, I have more time to think about items of importance that I touched on fleetingly in my working life.Robert Warren Cromey, Joy Years: My Retirement Memoir
Motivational Poems
A time of retirement is the realization that pleasure comes from doing what I enjoy, while meaning comes from doing what is important to me. My purpose in retirement completely shifts to that which is meaningful to others while partaking in what provides satisfaction provides its reward.Theordore W. Higgingsworth
Meaningful
“A retirement community is best for retirees who are still able to pursue an active life.” Kathy Bishopson, Caring for Elderly Parents
Life
“Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials -much to live on and much to live for.” Author Unknown
Purpose
“Our western European thought of retirement and pension has to be broken against all odds. Because it is a false myth that happiness comes from 65 years ‘retires’.” Ben Friedland, How to age cool
Happiness
“All who retire discover that Time (with a capital T) can be both friend and foe. Your week as well as your life revolved around the job for many decades.” Steven D. Price, How to Survive Retirement
Friend
“When you ‘retire,’ you’re on your own. No longer is most of your life ahead. You don’t have forever to fulfill promises. But there’s also good news: Now, going forward, can be the most important part of your life, when it all comes together – your experience, wisdom, and successes.” Michael Jeans
Positive Thinking
“‘Retirement’ is a concept that is in transition. It no longer reflects what people are experiencing or means what it used to, but it has yet to be redefined.” Roberta K. Taylor, The Couple’s Retirement Puzzle
Inspirational Thoughts
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