RETIREMENT QUOTES V

quotations about retirement

We think retirement could start to evolve. We expect to continue to see a shift away from the old-school, traditional idea of retirement in which people's days are filled with a lot of golf but not much else. Today's retirees and people who will retire in the next 10 and 20 years (and even farther into the future) are active and want to continue being productive in some way. That doesn't mean they keep working their same, full-time job until the end of time. But because they worked hard to build retirement savings and wealth over their working years, they're now free to explore other activities, jobs and positions without worrying about the number on the paycheck from their work.

ERIC JANSEN

"Traditional retirement is dead", CNBC, November 1, 2017


I live in retirement now
And through my window comes the sound of seagulls
And sets my mind remembering
The evening stars like memories sail far
beyond the distant trees
Way out across the open seas
I hear them sing

AL STEWART

"Old Admirals"


Life begins at retirement.

ANONYMOUS


Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement; in order to do which, it is necessary that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into.

J. BURGH

attributed, Day's Collacon


Early retirement is less for people who hate their jobs and more for those who have a clear idea of a different lifestyle or goal they may want to pursue.

KRISTIN WONG

"The Basics of FIRE (Financial Independence and Early Retirement)", Lifehacker Australia, November 16, 2017


Accept the fact that you are retired. Don't spend all your time wishing the past would return; it won't. Accept instead that your life has entered a new stage, and ahead of you are new adventures.

BILLY GRAHAM

"The ABCs of your life after retirement", Bowling Green Daily News, November 25, 2017


Retirement is a field of clover, but by the time you reach it, you're too old to climb the fence.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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

ELLA HARRIS

attributed, Say It With Style


Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.

RICHIE NORTON

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret


The days grow longer for smaller prizes
I feel a stranger to all surprises
You can have them I don't want them
I wear a different kind of garment
In my rehearsals for retirement

PHIL OCHS

"Rehearsals for Retirement"


My retirement had now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst.

HANNAH MORE

attributed, Day's Collacon


When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.

ANONYMOUS


The man of a thousand retirements
Will always be the one to tell you when to quit
I won't take stock in a withered man

PANTERA

"Primal Concrete Sledge"


The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

ANONYMOUS


Trying to get by it
So I won't have to quit
Don't wanna spend my nights
Working the dread yard shift
And I'm so sick and tired
Yeah I'm over head
I'm calling this an early retirement

HANDGUNS

"Early Retirement"


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

Ms. Magazine, July 1973

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The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.

ANONYMOUS


The first step is to make the decision to have a productive life after retirement and not just to settle into a traditional life of extended leisure.

JOHANN REDELINGHUYS

"Retirement is a change of pace, not end of the road", BDlive, February 10, 2016


You know you're ready to retire when you think "getting lucky" means finding your car in the parking lot.

ANONYMOUS


In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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