Inspirational Retirement Quotes:

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.

- John Lubbock

topic: Inspirational, Success, Summer, Inspirational Nature, Inspirational Retirement

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Happiness, Appreciation, Retirement, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

- Will Rogers

topic: Funny, Life, Wisdom, Managing Time, Time Spent

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Live In The Moment, Want, Action, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Party

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

- Gail Sheehy

topic: Funny, Teacher, Witty, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Farewell

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

source: "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

topic: Life, Retirement, Business, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

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

- Louis Armstrong

source: 1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

topic: Inspiring, Music, Retirement, Jazz Musician, Inspirational Retirement

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.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Numbers, Ciphers, Inspirational Retirement

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

- George Burns

topic: Funny, Witty, Teacher, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

- Gene Perret

topic: Inspirational, Retirement, Stress, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: 'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

topic: Retirement, Age, Crowns, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

- Charles Baxter

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Work, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Retirement, Way, Retiring, Inspirational Retirement, Insignificance

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Assessment, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

- John Anthony West

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Age, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Wishes

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

- John Burroughs

source: John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Life's Too Short, Joy Of Living

Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Retirement, Years, Thirty, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

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

- Ernie J Zelinski

topic: Retirement, Burden, Retiring, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

- Douglas Pagels

source: Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

topic: Stress, Color, Rainbow, Inspirational Retirement, Inspirational Stress Relief

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Work, Holiday, Definitions, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Holiday

To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.

- Suze Orman

source: "Suze Orman: Are you making these financial mistakes?". Article by Suze Orman, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

topic: Retirement, Long, Today, Inspirational Retirement

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

- Bette Davis

topic: Sexy, Retirement, Funny Inspirational, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Retirement, People, Habit, Inspirational Retirement

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Live Life To Its Fullest

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

- Richard Davies

topic: Retirement, Golf, Weekend, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Homes

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Commitment

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

- Abe Lemons

topic: Retirement, Days Off, Trouble, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

- Margaret Mead

source: Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

topic: Retirement, Retiring, Sooner Or Later, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age

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.

- Dwight L. Moody

topic: Death, Retirement, Prayer, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

- Lyoto Machida

topic: Thinking, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age, Retirement Card, Retirement Farewell

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

- Jonathan Clements

topic: Running, Retirement, Vacation, Inspirational Retirement, Long Vacation

Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. 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

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

topic: Retirement, Work, Holiday, Inspirational Retirement, Drudgery

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

- Gene Perret

topic: Success, Retirement, Age, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

- Gene Perret

topic: Retirement, Home, Forever, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

- Gene Perret

topic: Retirement, Worry, Age, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

- John Sharp Williams

topic: Retirement, Funny Retirement, Judgment, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Wishes

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

- George Foreman

topic: Sports, Age, Income, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Retirement, Hard Work, People, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Farewell

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Husband, Men, Wife, Inspirational Retirement, Retired Teacher

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Retirement, Work, Age, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Card

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

topic: Men, Age, Matter, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Card

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Retirement, Successful, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Humor

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

- George Burns

topic: Aging, Retiring, Shows, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

A man can't retire his experience.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Men, Experience, Retiring, Ciphers, Inspirational Retirement

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

- Ella Harris

topic: Jobs, Husband, Wife, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

- Stephen Leacock

topic: Retirement, Autumn, Blow, Maple, Inspirational Retirement

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

- Gene Perret

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Nice, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education