Top Retirement Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Retirement quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Claude Pepper
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
- Claude Pepper
Collection: Retirement
Image of Laurence J. Peter
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
- Laurence J. Peter
Collection: Retirement
Image of Douglas Rushkoff
If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some fundamental things change. Retirement becomes less about how much money you can squirrel away now and much more a matter of participating and contributing to your own community now so that they want to take care of you. … We’re going to move into a world where your retirement will be more secure if you’ve made lots of friends with young people rather than collected lots of dollars.
- Douglas Rushkoff
Collection: Retirement
Image of Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Republicans are suggesting that you take your retirement money and invest it in the stock market to take care of yourself but that leaves you with choices that you may not know anything about. The purpose of social Security is that you don't fall through the crack and find yourself destitute.
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Collection: Retirement
Image of Jane Bryant Quinn
It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.
- Jane Bryant Quinn
Collection: Retirement
Image of Nick Harkaway
A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.
- Nick Harkaway
Collection: Retirement
Image of Sophie Tucker
The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!
- Sophie Tucker
Collection: Retirement
Image of Patty Murray
The Presidents plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy.
- Patty Murray
Collection: Retirement
Image of Theodore Bikel
Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
- Theodore Bikel
Collection: Retirement
Image of Martin Short
[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.
- Martin Short
Collection: Retirement
Image of David Platt
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.
- David Platt
Collection: Retirement
Image of Francis Chan
Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God if something unexpected happens- they have their savings account. They don't need God to help them- they have their retirement plan in place. They don't genuinely seek out what life God would have them live- they have life figured and mapped out. They don't depend on God on a daily basis- their refrigerators are full and, for the most part, they are in good health. The truth is, their lives wouldn't look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.
- Francis Chan
Collection: Retirement
Image of Richard Price
The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements.
- Richard Price
Collection: Retirement
Image of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Collection: Retirement
Image of Richard Trumka
Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.
- Richard Trumka
Collection: Retirement
Image of Paul Tournier
Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.
- Paul Tournier
Collection: Retirement
Image of Joan Rivers
You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
- Joan Rivers
Collection: Retirement
Image of Douglas Preston
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.
- Douglas Preston
Collection: Retirement
Image of Rodney Brooks
I always tell people, it's never too late to start saving for retirement. It's not that important how much you have already saved. What's important is that you start saving. And save as much as you can. You will be amazed at how quickly it will build up.
- Rodney Brooks
Collection: Retirement
Image of Edward Heath
Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Retirement
Image of Paula White
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!
- Paula White
Collection: Retirement
Image of Mills Lane
It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.
- Mills Lane
Collection: Retirement
Image of Dorothy Wordsworth
The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.
- Dorothy Wordsworth
Collection: Retirement
Image of David Gill
We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.
- David Gill
Collection: Retirement
Image of Patrick Roy
Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career.
- Patrick Roy
Collection: Retirement
Image of Sherry Lansing
I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.
- Sherry Lansing
Collection: Retirement
Image of Zoe Lofgren
Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
- Zoe Lofgren
Collection: Retirement
Image of Jerry Della Femina
Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any responsibilities. The boomers think that they're 16. Marketers try to keep the charade going. Retirement will look so good, others are going to be jealous.
- Jerry Della Femina
Collection: Retirement
Image of Shannon Fife
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
- Shannon Fife
Collection: Retirement
Image of Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.
- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Collection: Retirement
Image of Nick Nolte
I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!
- Nick Nolte
Collection: Retirement
Image of Jon Gruden
If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested we probably couldn't get real interested. So you've got to temper your enthusiasm with the reality of our situation.
- Jon Gruden
Collection: Retirement
Image of Steve Buscemi
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
- Steve Buscemi
Collection: Retirement
Image of Linda Goodman
Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.
- Linda Goodman
Collection: Retirement
Image of Richard Carlson
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
Collection: Retirement
Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Collection: Retirement
Image of R. C. Sherriff
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
Collection: Retirement
Image of Ronnie Wood
We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.
- Ronnie Wood
Collection: Retirement
Image of Lilly Ledbetter
We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5 - 4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.
- Lilly Ledbetter
Collection: Retirement
Image of Judith Warner
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.
- Judith Warner
Collection: Retirement
Image of Emmett O'Donnell, Jr.
Retirement: statutory senility.
- Emmett O'Donnell, Jr.
Collection: Retirement
Image of Hedrick Smith
It's probably also smart to keep some money in cash to invest it. But I would resist at all costs taking a lump-sum distribution because the tendency is to spend out too fast in the early years of your retirement. The advice of professionals is to take out no more than 5% per year and that will give you 20 years of distributions, and at your age, 55, you probably have more than 20 years life expectancy.
- Hedrick Smith
Collection: Retirement
Image of Hedrick Smith
The issue of the pension gap has got to become visible and important to millions of people before Washington will respond seriously. Right now, everyone thinks it's his or her own problem and that individuals have to do better and save more. Of course, that is true. We all have to save more and take responsibility for our own retirement. But we have a huge social and economic problem on our hands.
- Hedrick Smith
Collection: Retirement
Image of Hedrick Smith
One of the strongest lessons I learned in doing six months of work on retirement topic was how absolutely crucial the Social Security system is for the great mass of Americans. The research of professionals and our own reporting convinced me that many millions of people are not capable of effectively managing the finances for their own retirement.
- Hedrick Smith
Collection: Retirement
Image of Hedrick Smith
The main problems are insufficient diversification and the failure to pick age-appropriate strategies - that is, more aggressive when you're younger, and more conservative when you approach retirement. But even then you have to invest for growth.
- Hedrick Smith
Collection: Retirement
Image of Hedrick Smith
There is no question that policy makers, corporate leaders, pension consultants, and journalists too have to get out into the real world to at least see the pain of retirement woes before they start to prescribe policies and solutions.
- Hedrick Smith
Collection: Retirement
Image of Hedrick Smith
One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.
- Hedrick Smith
Collection: Retirement
Image of John Sharp Williams
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.
- John Sharp Williams
Collection: Retirement
Image of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.
- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Collection: Retirement