52 Quotes to Kickstart Your Retirement Journey

Retirement, a stage of life that many eagerly anticipate, marks the transition from the daily routine to a world of newfound freedom and possibilities.

It’s a time when individuals have the opportunity to explore their passions, travel, and enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

Retirement is the perfect time to rediscover deeper into your passions and interests. Whether it’s painting, gardening, playing a musical instrument, or any other hobby, retirement offers the gift of time to explore these activities with enthusiasm.

Retirement lets you have more time to be with your family and friends. Strengthening these bonds and creating meaningful memories with loved ones can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of retirement.

So, we’ve gathered a collection of insightful retirement quotes that will set the tone for your retirement adventure.

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Best Retirement Quotes

“Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“Retirement: Something arrived at in haste and lived at in leisure.” – Dave Erhard

“Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, “Hi, Honey, I’m home — forever.” – Gene Perret

“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stopped laughing.” – Michael Pritchard

“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

“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.” – Abe Lemons

“You have to put off being young until you can retire.” – Unknown

“A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.” – Ella Harris

“Retirement is a blank sheet of paper. It is a chance to redesign your life.” – Patrick Foley

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain

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

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

“The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.” – Unknown

“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ” – Chi Chi Rodriguez

“You get old faster when you think about retirement.” – Toba Beta

“In retirement, every day is a Saturday — except Sunday.” – Roger Priddy

“Stay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living.” – Danielle Duckery

“Retirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living.” – Unknown

“I’ve enjoyed my retirement.” – Darrell Royal

“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

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

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“With retirement, however, comes a great chunk of free time.” – Steven D. Price

“I’m really in retirement. My career is over. I’m just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I’m doing what’s fun for me.” – Dick Van Dyke

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

“Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest.” – Jonathan Clements

“For now I’m building up stories for the retirement home!” – Carol Vorderman

“The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.” – Susan Miller

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

“There’s no retirement for an artist, its your way of living so there’s no end to it.” – Bono

“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

“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.” – John Sharp Williams

“Retirement is the time to enjoy the little things you’ve missed while working.” – Unknown

“Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.” – Louis Armstrong

“Make a plan of how your future is going to look like. Make a smart investment portfolio so that you won’t have to worry about your retirement.” – John McQuilkin

“Retirement is the time to celebrate a life well-lived.” – Unknown

“As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.” – Earl Nightingale

“Retirement is a time to relax, recharge, and rediscover yourself.” – Unknown

“Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.” – Betty White

“Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left.” – George Burns

“It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.” – Gregory Maguire

“Retirement is the time to savor the simple pleasures of life.” – Unknown

“Retirement is the reward for years of hard work and dedication.” – Unknown

“Retirement sounds appropriate when you are ageing, fact is you aged because you have been thinking of retirement.” – Amit Kalantri

“Retirement is the time to find new passions and pursue them wholeheartedly.” – Unknown

“But I’m really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.” – Derek Landy

“Retirement is a time to focus on the things that truly matter.” – Unknown

“Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

“The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them.” – Frank Eberhart

“Retire from work, but not from life.” – M.K. Soni

“My father calls acting ‘a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'” – Chris Pine

“Stay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living.” – Danielle Duckery

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