Retirement Quotes Quotes & Sayings

I'll be afraid only on a day that will never come. The day when I give up. — Ayn Rand

Retirement is lie sex. Men love to talk about it, but when the time finally comes, they're good for about fifteen minutes then they're dying to put their ties back on. — Paula Wall

It's so damned humiliating. — Mark Twain

I often would think about how we have built our society, and when you describe it out loud, it sounds rather insane. The idea of being funnelled through a conventional life progression of education, work, career, marriage, kids, divorce, retirement and then death doesn't seem that inspiring to me.
Then we're told we have to struggle to make a living, sacrifice enjoyment to have a family, delay our happiness until we're retired, fight the next person for a job, climb the ladder of success to get an even more stressful job,
spend more money than we earn, go into debt, live in fear of being blown up by some terrorist and then have TV passed off as the only way to escape it all. And when all of this gets too much and you can't keep up, you get prescribed antidepressants and made to feel like you've failed. — Josh Langley

Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life? — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option. — Warren Adler

From the day I got out of school, I was looking for an idea. — Tom Golisano

When its time to die, you don't want to realize you haven't lived. — Lee Johnson

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. — Dejan Stojanovic

Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line. — Gina Greenlee

In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in our relationships with others at the penalty of being declared insane; on the other, our political perceptions are labeled "irrational" and "hysterical. — Adrienne Rich

A written retirement plan provides an evolving foundation of social purpose and direction for personal growth. — Lee Johnson

The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money. — Idowu Koyenikan