Quotes about retirement

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose.

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job the retired pray for grandchildren.

Save your golden days as time goes byBefore golden years expire

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them

I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or tearing up the sofa. A working dog needs to work. And I am a working dog.

Rich people don’t work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives

Rich people do not work for money, they devote themselves to the work they love and do not wait for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but keep working passionately until the end of their lives

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept over him. Yes, he should have become acquainted with the classics. Long ago. Now, alas, it was too late....

Volume II, Chapter 4"How unwise had the wanderers been, who had deserted its shelter, entangled themselves in the web of society, and entered on what men of the world call "life,"—that labyrinth of evil, that scheme of mutual torture. To live, according to this sense of the word, we must not only observe and learn, we must also feel; we must not be mere spectators of action, we must act; we must not describe, but be subjects of description. Deep sorrow must have been the inmate of our bosoms; fr

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision

A man approaching retirement called the retirement office to inquire about his pension. Afterward, he was asked if his wife worked. “She’s worked all her life making me happy”, he replied. “Yes sir, but has she earned money to receive her pension?” “When we got married we agreed on an arrangement”, he said. “I would earn the living, and she would make the living worthwhile”.“Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that d

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire it's at what income.

Leisure time is when your wife can't find you

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?

Retirement: Twice as much husband half as much pay.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

Retirement must be wonderful. I mean you can suck in your stomach for only so long.

Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.

Since our boss will be retiring soon it's been suggested that we give him a little momentum.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.

Retirement: statutory senility.

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

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

Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week but lately I forget three things a week.

Retirement from Job does not mean retirement from life! It is the beginning not an end!

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.

Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.

Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.

The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.

Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I’ve learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That’s as far as I’ve gotten I’m afraid.

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

This rough magicI here abjure, and, when I have requiredSome heavenly music, which even now I do,To work mine end upon their senses thatThis airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And deeper than did ever plummet soundI'll drown my book.

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

You wouldn’t get in a car and drive around aimlessly, hoping to eventually arrive at a pleasant destination. So why would you even consider doing this for your business?

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

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.

Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of it's favors to those called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or such others who are idle, or live either by flattery or by contriving the arts of vain pleasure, and, on the other hand, takes no care of those of a meaner sort, such as ploughmen, colliers, and smiths, without whom it could not subsist? But after the public has reaped all the advantage of their service, and they come to be oppressed with age, sickness, and want, all

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

Walt also had a humorous sign posted outside the mansion, recruiting ghosts who wanted to enjoy 'active retirement' in the "country club atmosphere' of this 'fashionable address'. Interested ghosts were to write to the 'Ghost Relations Dept. Disneyland,' and were told,'Do not apply in person.

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon.