1. “Retirement is when having a good time is your only job.” ― Unknown
2. “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
3. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” ― Fred Rogers
4. “The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.” ― George Foreman
5. “Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.” ― Catherine Pulsifer
6. “Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.” ― Gene Perret
7. “The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.” ― Abe Lemons
8. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ― Abraham Lincoln
9. “Retirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living.” ― Unknown
10. “Retirement, a time to enjoy all the things you never had time to do when you worked.”
11. “There’s one thing I always wanted to do before I quit… retire!” – Groucho Marx
12. “Retirement is a blank sheet of paper. It is a chance to redesign your life into something new and different.” ― Patrick Foley
13. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” ― Vince Lombardi
14. “You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.” ― C.S. Lewis
15. “Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, “Hi, Honey, I’m home — forever.” ― Gene Perret
16. “Retirement is not a life without purpose; it is the on-going purpose that provides meaningfulless.” ― Robert Rivers
17. “Retire from work, but not from life.” ― M.K. Soni
18. “Life starts at retirement.” ― Unknown
19. “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
20. “Retirement is a time to enjoy what you have been working so hard for.” ― Unknown
21. “Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials – much to live on and much to live for.” ― Unknown
22. “I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don’t know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.” ― Dick Van Dyke
23. “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
24. “Something pretty…that’s just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don’t worry about it.” ― Jeanne Moreau
25. “Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” ― Harry Emerson Fosdick
26. “Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.” — Dianne Nahirny
27. “Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.” ― Jonathan Clements
28. “As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.” ― Earl Nightingale
29. “Stay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living.” ― Danielle Duckery
30. “Don’t act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.” ― J. A. West
31. “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
32. “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
33. “The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.” ― Unknown
34. “Retirement life is different because there is no set routine. You are able to let the day unfold as it should. Enjoy, be happy and live each day.” ― Suzanne Steel
35. “Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials — much to live on and much to live for.” ― Unknown
36. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” ― Bill Waterson, Calvin & Hobbes
37. “You can’t put off being young until you retire.” ― Philip Larkin
38. “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” ― Will Rogers
39. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” ― Anne Bradstreet
40. “There’s one thing I always wanted to do before I quit . . . . retire!” – Groucho Marx
41. “The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.” ― Susan Miller
42. “Retirement is not about ‘finding’ ourselves – or losing ourselves in electronic distractions – but about creating a new life for ourselves and those around us.” ― Rick Steiner
43. “You can retire, but you can’t retire from being great!” – Unknown
44. “We work all our lives so we can retire – so we can do what we want with our time – and the way we define or spend our time defines who we are and what we value.” ― Bruce Linton
45. “Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.” ― Samuel Johnson
46. “Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.” ― Unknown
47. “Don’t act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.” ― J. A. West
48. “For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.” ― John Sharp Williams
49. “Sit back and relax and do the things you never got a chance to do.” ― Julie Hebert
50. “Retiring just so you can do nothing is no way to live life and so from now on, the word retirement will be replaced with the word, graduation.” ― Mike Finley
51. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” ― Fred Rogers
52. 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
53. “Time spent in laughter when one is retired is well invested.” ― Unknown
54. “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
55. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ― Mark Twain
