Retirement Quotes: Famous and Inspiring Sayings

One thing you can do if you are struggling to find the appropriate words for a retirement card message is to use one or more retirement quotes. This gives you the opportunity of using the words or feelings already articulated by someone else, perhaps in a better way, but also find something inspiring or with a different perspective of retirement.

So use one or more of the famous poets, authors and celebrities from the selection of retirement quotes below to help your retirement card stand out and offer more than just a standard, run of the mill greeting or message.

Short Retirement Quotes


“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.” John Sharp Williams


“Retire from work, but not from life.” M. K. Soni


“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.” John Sharp Williams


“The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income. ~George Foreman


“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949

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“Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me,” Hartman said in sudden seriousness. “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.” ~Terri Guillemets

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“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.” ~Seneca


“Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it.” ~Bernard Baruch


“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” ~Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne


“I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.” ~Mike Hammar


“Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache…… Unless you play golf” – Gene Perret

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“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income” – Chi Chi Rodriguez


“Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it” – Gene Perret


“A retired husband is often a wife’s full- time job” – Ella Harris


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


“When you retire, you switch bosses – from the one who hired you to the one who married youx – Gene Perret

Inspiring Retirement Quotes


“But what, it may be asked, are the requisites for a life of retirement? A man may be weary of the toils and torments of business, and yet quite unfit for the tranquil retreat. Without literature, friendship, and religion, retirement is in most cases found to be a dead, flat level, a barren waste, and a blank. Neither the body nor the soul can enjoy health and life in a vacuum.”
— Richter

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“Age [along with retirement] 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.”
— Francis Bacon

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“Retire from work, but not from life.”
– M.K. Soni


“The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.”
– Susan Miller


“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


“Retirement is not a work status, it’s an attitude”


“Planning to retire? Before you do, find your hidden passion, do the thing that you have always wanted to do.” Catherine Pulsifer

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“Sit back and relax and do the things you never got a chance to do.” Julie Hebert


“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.” John Sharp Williams


“Best wishes on your retirement. Enjoy a rest that’s overdue. Take pleasure in the finer things that are awaiting you.” Judith Wibberley


“Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.” Catherine Pulsifer


“Retirement – now life begins.” Catherine Pulsifer


“Retirement, a time to enjoy all the things you never had time to do when you worked.” Catherine Pulsifer


“There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.” Robert Half

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“Life begins at retirement.” ~Author Unknown<


“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” ~Doug Larson


“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.” ~Author

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“Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache… unless you play golf. Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.” ~Jim Bishop


“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.” ~Harry
Vardon


“Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


“The thing to do is to make so much money that you don’t have to work after the age of twenty-seven. In case this is impracticable, stop work at the earliest possible moment, even if it is at a quarter past eleven on the morning of the day when you find you do have enough money.” ~Robert Benchley


“I’m now as free as the breeze — with roughly the same income.” ~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

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“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.” ~Terri Guillemets


“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” ~Herbert Asquith


“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.” ~Ernest Hemingway


“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. ~Robert Brault”


“I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.” ~Mike Hammar


Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials — much to live on and much to live for. I believe that I now have both.”
— Unknown wise person


“As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.”
-Earl Nightingale


“There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it retirement. I call it bliss.”
– Betty Sullivan


“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 Felt-Bardon


“Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.”
– Dianne Nahirny


“I work harder now that I have retired from corporate life, than when I actually worked, but I love it.”
– Catherine Pulsifer


“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

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We hope we these retirement quotes have inspired or shown you just how wonderful retirement can be.

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