“Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.” – Unknown. Here are 45 Best Retirement Quotes.
Retirement Quotes
1. “Retirement is a blank sheet of paper. It is a chance to redesign your life into something new and different.” – Patrick Foley
2. “Don’t act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.”– J. A. West
3. “Retirement, a perfect time to do what you want to, when you want to, where you want to do it, and, exactly how you want to do it.” – Catherine Pulsifer
4. “As your life changes, it takes time to recalibrate, to find your values again. You might also find that retirement is the time when you stretch out and find your potential.” – Sid Miramontes
5. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” – Vince Lombardi
6. “Time spent in laughter when one is retired is well invested.” – Unknown
7. “Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials — much to live on and much to live for.”
– Unknown
8. “Happy days are here at last, the days of nine to five are past, you’ve worked your life and paid your dues, now you can do just what you choose!” – Unknown
9. “For many, retirement is a time for personal growth, which becomes the path to greater freedom.” – Robert Delamontague
10. “Retirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living.” – Unknown
11. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
12. “Retirement’s the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it’s time to enjoy my retirement.” – Patrick Macnee
Retirement Quotes
13. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”– Fred Rogers
14. “Retirement is when having a good time is your only job.” – Unknown
15. “There’s one thing I always wanted to do before I quit… retire!” – Groucho Marx
16. “You can retire, but you can’t retire from being great!” – Unknown
17. “When you ‘retire,’ you’re on your own. No longer is most of your life ahead. You don’t have forever to fulfill promises. But there’s also good news: Now, going forward, can be the most important part of your life, when it all comes together – your experience, wisdom, and successes.” ~ Michael Jeans
18. “For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.”– John Sharp Williams
19. “Retire the word ‘retirement’ from your vocabulary. Look it up: it means to ‘withdraw’ or ‘retreat.’ Words can shape reality, and it’s time for this one to go. Doesn’t ‘renaissance’ or ‘graduation’ or ‘transition’ better describe your post-career life?” – Marika Stone
20. “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
21. “Retirement, a time to enjoy all the things you never had time to do when you worked.”– Catherine Pulsifer
22. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. “Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grand kids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself.”– Hartman Jule
Retirement Quotes
24. “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers
25. “Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.” – Samuel Johnson
26. “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
27. “The challenge to retirement is spending more time without spending more money.” – Unknown
28. “Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.” – Abigail Charleson
29. “Don’t just retire from something; have something you retire to.” – Unknown
30. “You have to put off being young until you can retire.” – Unknown
31. “Retirement is a time to enjoy what you have been working so hard for.” – Unknown
32. “You can’t retire from being great!” – Unknown
33. “RETIREMENT – now life begins.” – Catherine Pulsifer
34. “In retirement it’s not the years in your life. It’s the life in your years.” – Unknown
Retirement Quotes
35. “Retire from work, but not from life.” – M.K. Soni
36. “Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick
37. “Retirement brings the ball to your court, where you make the rules.” – Unknown
38. “Life starts at retirement.” – Unknown
39. “Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.” – Dianne Nahirny
40. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” – Bill Waterson, Calvin & Hobbes
41. “Retiring from work does not mean retiring from life! It is just the beginning not the end!” – Unknown
42. “The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.” – Susan Miller
43. “Retirement is when you start working at living and quit living at work.” – Unknown
44. “Stay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living.” – Danielle Duckery
45. “What do you call someone who’s happy on Mondays? Retired!” – Unknown