Retirement Quotes
Retirement is a major life changing decision. You’ve spent the majority of your years planning, saving, and making money by working hard in your career. Your job may have been your passion, but now is the time to seek out new opportunities. Retirement gives you the chance to spend more time with your loved ones and say goodbye to your alarm clock forever.
In this article, you will find the best retirement quotes and sayings that you can share with the new retiree as you welcome them to the world of having full control of their time.
60 Retirement Quotes & Sayings
“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
“Living each day as if it were your last doesn’t mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.” – Jack Canfield
“The joy of retirement comes in those everyday pursuits that embrace the joy of life; to experience daily the freedom to invest one’s life-long knowledge for the betterment of others; and, to allocate time to pursuits that only received, in years of working, a fleeting moment.” – Byron Pulsifer
“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.” – John Sharp Williams
“For many, retirement is a time for personal growth, which becomes the path to greater freedom.” – Robert Delamontague
“Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.” – Author Unknown
“Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, “Hi, Honey, I’m home — forever.” – Gene Perret
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.” – Abe Lemons
“Retirement’s the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it’s time to enjoy my retirement.” – Patrick Macnee
“Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials – much to live on and much to live for.” – Author Unknown
“Retire from work, but not from life.” – M.K. Soni
Retirement is a blank sheet of paper. It is a chance to redesign your life into something new and different.~~Patrick Foley
Retiring from your primary career is not merely an act of ending, but, more opportunistically and relevant, an act of commencement and of the promise of a meaningful future._Alan Spector
“Voluntary early retirement gives you a chance to pursue new areas of study…. It’s a great opportunity to pursue your goals and dreams while you are still young, energetic, and healthy enough to enjoy them. In addition, retirement may be your last shot at being the person you would like to be.”–Ernie Zelinski
What does retirement mean now that there are so many opportunities for learning, for caring, for serving? We can redefine aging.”–Rachel Cowan
“Don’t act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.” – J. A. West
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” – Bill Waterson, Calvin & Hobbes
“I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don’t know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.” – Dick Van Dyke
“Retirement gives you the time literally to recreate yourself through a sport, game, or hobby that you always wanted to try or that you haven’t done in years.”~~Steven D. Price
Retirement is not a life without purpose; it is the on-going purpose that provides meaningfullless.
Robert Rivers
Robert Rivers
“On the positive side, retirement can be an opportunity to enjoy life in a new way, the right to stop work and do the 1,001 things you’ve always wanted to do but never had time for, and a chance to give yourself over to new challenges and adventures.”–Sara Yogev
To some of us, retirement gives us time to follow our dreams.~Shirley Mitchell
“Retirement: When you stop lying about your age and start lying around the house.” – Unknown
“As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.” – Earl Nightingale
“You have to put off being young until you can retire.”-Author Unknown
“We work all our lives so we can retire – so we can do what we want with our time – and the way we define or spend our time defines who we are and what we value.” – Bruce Linton
“We work all our lives so we can retire – so we can do what we want with our time – and the way we define or spend our time defines who we are and what we value.”-Bruce Linton
… retirement is a time for personal growth, which becomes the path to greater personal freedom.
Mark Evan Chimsky
Mark Evan Chimsky
“Maybe the word ‘retirement’ makes you think of old age, boredom and laziness, but I’d rather have you try think of it as freedom to do what you want, freedom to be as active as you’d like, and even freedom to work the job that you like – to be in a place where money doesn’t dictate your choices.”~~Rex Dalen
“Retirement: World’s longest coffee break.” – Unknown
“Retirement is when having a good time is your only job.” – Unknown
Stay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living. —Danielle Duckery
My father calls acting ‘a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.’ —Chris Pine
“You have to put off being young until you can retire.”-Author Unknown
“A thriving new beginning can be and should be a time for amazing engagement, growth, connections, contributions, and amazing possibilities.” – Lee M. Brower
“Retirement is …. a time to experience a fulfilling life derived from many enjoyable and rewarding activities.”__Ernie J. Zelinski
“Retire the word ‘retirement’ from your vocabulary. Look it up: it means to ‘withdraw’ or ‘retreat.’ Words can shape reality, and it’s time for this one to go. Doesn’t ‘renaissance’ or ‘graduation’ or ‘transition’ better describe your postcareer life?–Marika Stone
“The idea of retirement both excites and terrifies people. After decades of working full-time, visions of throwing out the alarm clock for good are certainly provocative.”~~Belinda Tucker
“My retirement plan is to get thrown into a minimum security prison in Hawaii.” – Julius Sharpe
“Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.” – Margaret Mead
“The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.” – Author Unknown
“As your life changes, it takes time to recalibrate, to find your values again. You might also find that retirement is the time when you stretch out and find your potential.” – Sid Miramontes
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” – Fred Rogers
“Please remember that retirement is a different way of life, with new challenges and opportunities. You need to adapt and adjust to this new lifestyle, and that takes time, effort, and creativity.”~~Rick Steiner
After all those years of seriously doing what you had to do to make a living and raise a family, now you can be a clown, work at Disneyland helping Mickey Mouse, build new homes for Habitat for Humanity, or just be lazy in scenic surroundings.–Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
“In my opinion, a successful retirement takes place when you no longer need to work for money. Rather, the work you do is motivated by higher-level goals and purposes, not income generation.”~~Rand Bennett
“Funny thing about retirement, it kills more people than work ever did.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.” – Gene Perret
“Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter’s rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.” – William Shakespeare
“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
“Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.” – Gene Perret
“A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.” – Ella Harris
“Retirement, a time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, where you want to do it and how you want to do it,” – Catherine Pulsifer
” . . . there is an exciting world of possibilities out there that very few of us get the chance to explore during our working lives, but retirement is that time!”~~Stella Rheingold
I am not retired…I’m way too busy for that…I’m still volunteering my time to wonderful programs and projects. I’m still trying to make a difference in this world.–Hyrum W. Smith
“People can’t do anything about growing old because it’s one of the most natural things in the world, but one thing you can control, though, is how you’ll live your life once you’re old enough to retire.”
Adrian J.Williams
Adrian J.Williams
“There is no sense in being pessimistic about your retirement. It wouldn’t work anyway.” – Unknown
“Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick
“What do you call a person who is happy on a Monday? Retired.” – Unknown
“Time spent in laughter when one is retired is well invested.” – Unknown