Retirement quotations, Quotes on retirment

Retirement quotations, Quotes on retirement : whether you are preparing a speech or seeking some personal reflections, here is a list that should meet your needs. Some are serious; others are humorous and lighthearted.

Try these Retirement quotations:

  • Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. - Abigail Charleson
  • 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
  • Retire from work, but not from life. - M.K. Soni
  • Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. - Seneca
  • Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning. ~ Catherine Pulsifer

More Quotes on retirement

  • 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
  • Life begins at retirement. - Author Unknown
  • Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment. - Anonymous
  • The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money. - Author Unknown
  • The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. - George Foreman>/li>
  • I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule
  • Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. - Bernard Baruch

Additional Retirement quotations

  • I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. - Bette Davis
  • 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. - Arthur E. Morgan
  • I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten. - George Bernard Shaw
  • Men and women approaching RETIREMENT age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people. - Maggie Kuhn
  • 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 Nelson Bradley

Here are even more Retirement quotations

  • The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. - Source Unknown
  • Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. - William A. Ward
  • I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. - Voltaire
  • Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. - Margaret Mead
  • Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. -Louis Armstrong

Famous Retirement Quotations

  • I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. - General Douglas MacArthur,
  • It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. - Scott Elledge
  • It has become clear to most of us that we don’t want “our father’s retirement”; the only thing that needs to be retired are old ideas about retirement. - Mitch Anthony
  • Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have reached a great age, I might as well be 20. - Pablo Picasso
  • If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough. - Phyllis Diller
  • Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique and every man or woman’s foremost task is the actualization of his or her unique, unprecedented and never-recurring possibilities. - Martin Buber
  • We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old, but more like ourselves. - May Lamberton Becker
  • Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice. - Dianne Nahirny
  • Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne upon them. - Brendan Francis

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