Retirement quotes are to inspire those who are retiring. Look for meaning of life after retirement with these famous sayings & quotations.

Retirement Quotes

Throughout our life, we are in the rat race - trying to move further in our career and make yet more money. We get so busy in running that we don't even realize that the time has come to hang your shoes and enjoy the fruits of your efforts - in the form of retirement. Retirement does not mean that life has come to an end and all you will have with you will be boredom. Rather, it is about reliving all those moments that you could not earlier. In the following lines, we have listed famous retirement quotes, to lift up the spirit of those are getting retired and inspire them to enjoy each and every moment of life. Hope you will find these retirement sayings and quotations useful.

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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
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.
Charles de Saint-Evremond
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
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
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
Gene Perret
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.
Bernard Baruch
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.
John Sharp Williams
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
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 Fel
Martha Felt-Bardon
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer?s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
J. Lubbock
The way retirement is shaping up, how will one know for sure when he or she has retired?
Robin Fowler
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.
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.
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.
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
Ella Harris
I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps.
Merri Brownworth
I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension!
Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.
Abigail Charleson
Retirement: World's longest coffee break.
The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.
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
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.
Gene Perret
My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
O. J. Simpson
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
Pete Rose
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Anthony Hopkins
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess
One day you retire, and you get a social life.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.
Terry Goodkind
“Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.”
Bill Vaughan
You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
Ella Harris
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Rick Warren
I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
John Goodman
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off
Abe Lemons
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
Sean Penn
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
Omar N. Bradley
Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.
Serena Williams
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.  
William Hazlitt
Being left out of the match squad for the Ireland international was not a factor in my thinking. Retiring from Test rugby has been on my mind for a while because I was away from the family for so long during the World Cup. 
Jason Leonard
When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

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