Retirement Quotes

Retirement Quote of the day

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

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.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

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.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance.

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

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

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

When one door closes, another one opens.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

Take life with a pinch of salt A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime Do nothing at all But take your time

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

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

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

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

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.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

God has a plan for your retirement.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.