Retirement Quotes

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Music, Aging

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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• I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

  Charles Lamb

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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• As a chapter closes in your life,
  And a new one starts for you,
  May your years be filled with all the things
  You've been looking forward to!

  John Walter Bratton

  Years, May, Looking Forward

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• Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Letting Go, Past, Opportunity

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• 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

  Running, Vacation, Vegas

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  You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

  George Burns

  Funny, Hilarious, Humor

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John Anthony West

  Teacher, Teaching, Age

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• Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again.

  Richard Carlson

  Trying, Beginners, Phases

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• 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

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• 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

  Death, Senior, Prayer

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Business, Laziness

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

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

  Abe Lemons

  Days Off, Trouble, Funny Boss

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Money

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• 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

  Teacher, Holiday, Rejection

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• 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

  Teacher, Numbers, Age

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• Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Age, Able, Exit

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• 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

  Work, Age, Watches

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• Retirement: a time to become much more than you have ever been.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Farewell

  "How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free". Book by Ernie J Zelinski, www.today.com. 2004.

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• A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

  Scott D. Cook

  Marijuana, Poverty, Generations

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• 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

  Autumn, Blow, Wind

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• In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Teaching, Symptoms

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

  John Sharp Williams

  Judgment, Retiring, All Things

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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

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