quotations about retirement
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
Well, my retirement plan's a coffee can and it's full of IOUs.
JEFF BATES
"Already Spent"
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
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
ELLA HARRIS
attributed, Say It With Style
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 idea of retirement is alien to me. When it gives you great joy to do something--in my case, make music--why on earth would you stop?
BENNY ANDERSSON
"Abba's Benny Andersson says idea of retirement is alien to him", Belfast Telegraph, October 28, 2017
Saddest of all is when we see retirees putting their bucket list dreams on hold for a later time. This is not the best time of life to put your dreams on hold.
KEN SUTHERLAND & ALEX SUTHERLAND
"Making the 'Great Transition' into retirement is a scary time for seniors", New York Daily News, January 27, 2016
You know you're ready to retire when you think "getting lucky" means finding your car in the parking lot.
ANONYMOUS
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
Reader's Digest, Volume 67, 1955
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"
Retirement is not a static event, fixed in time with a gold watch to mark it. Rather retirement -- if that is even the right word -- is a multidirectional process that can take many years.
ALICE RADOSH
Women Confronting Retirement
In the wealthy nations of the world we face nothing less than a thorough redefinition of retirement. To be sure, people will continue to retire from their jobs. But ... retirement will no longer be the twilight of life, focused on rest, recreation, and recuperation; it will now be a time in which people will marshal their experience and intelligence to create entirely new lives for themselves.
PETER SCHWARTZ
Inevitable Surprises
The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are!
ANONYMOUS
Retirement is the number one reason clients come to me for financial planning. It's always a variation of, "Do I have enough?" And it's no wonder why! Everything we read programs us to fear the dreaded retirement. It's as if we have no control over what happens to us when we turn 67. The day hits and there are two paths: those who made their retirement goals, and those who didn't. The 'haves' go on to live a golden hued life filled with travel, golf and rummy cube (I'm not knocking it - I would give anything to play rummy cube all day). Then there are the poor "have nots." These are the ones who just didn't do enough, had bad luck or both. They, needless to say, live a life without rummy.
LIZ FRAZIER PECK
"5 Strategies To Help You Meet Your Retirement Goals (That Don't Involve Saving More Money)", Forbes, October 31, 2017
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
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
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
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
ANONYMOUS
Maybe the worst part of retirement is finding things to complain about. When you work, there is plenty. And working means there isn't time to do much around the house so there is that to complain about. But now I have only myself to blame when something goes wrong. I am my own boss and a pretty awful one at that.
WALLY SPIERS
"Retirement is easy. It's keeping everything straight that's difficult.", Belleville News-Democrat, November 4, 2017
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"