170 Retirement Age Quotes

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Famous Retirement Age Quotes

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

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

You retire by saving up enough money, becoming a monk, or by finding work that feels like play to you. — Naval Ravikant

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way. — Betty White

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

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week. — Vince McMahon

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

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100. — Joseph Pilates

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired. — Frank Serpico

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. — Abe Lemons

Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired. — Naval Ravikant

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. — Arthur E. Morgan

Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance. — Chris Hogan

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working. — Vin Scully

Short Retirement Age Quotes

  • Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others. — Ernie J Zelinski
  • Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley
  • Age is how we determine how valuable you are. — Jane Elliot
  • Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
  • Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it. — David Gemmell
  • Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. — Chili Davis
  • Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. — Bob Monkhouse
  • Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt
  • Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Fred Astaire
  • Old age is no place for sissies. — Bette Davis

Retirement Age Image Quotes

Retirement age quote Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

When I Retire Quotes

This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. — Richard M. Nixon

When I started Taco Bell, I wasn’t thinking about creating an empire; I just wanted to make a living doing something I enjoyed. — Glen Bell

Retirement age quote Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.

The moon is a very nice place. When we landed, we were 20 minutes behind. Because time on the Moon was so precious, what I remember most is trying to catch up. — John Young

What I would like to say is make sure you know what you really want to do and do it. And also I want to say, if not now then when? — Lisa Manoban

The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I’m talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the afternoon. I even think in Spanish when I get angry! — Antoine Griezmann

I like to say, ‘Experience is what you got when you didn’t get what you wanted.’ — Howard S. Marks

I don’t even remember a time when I didn’t want to be an astronaut. I’ve always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. — Christina Koch

When you lose someone you love, you don’t think the same way. And that’s why I say I enjoy life: because it goes very fast. — Paul Pogba

I’m a very lazy person, so I don’t really do things or go out very much, but when I do get out of the house, I do get recognized a lot. — Sadie Sink

Retirement Quotes

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. — William Arthur Ward

The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil. — Saint John Chrysostom

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

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. — Jerry Garcia

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. - Louis Armstrong

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. — Emily Dickinson

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being. — Farid al-Din Attar

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. — Ann Landers

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. — Rick Warren

Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us. — Lauryn Hill

Retirement Card Quotes

In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp

The cards are stacked in your favor when you reinvest every penny in your business. — Vladimer Botsvadze

It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for, fighting on the big cards like UFC 200. — Amanda Nunes

Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can’t fight that, I have to adapt and change. — Didier Deschamps

A man can't retire his experience. — Bernard Baruch

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. — Gene Perret

I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap — Lyoto Machida

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Joan Rivers

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. — Gene Perret

Retirement Years Quotes

Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day. — Vijay Kedia

Market history is filled with examples of companies that returned over 100x on an initial investment. The difficulty is in finding and holding on to those companies over many years. — Thomas Phelps

A life without love is like a year without summer. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan

I put a lot of meaning into what will go on my skin and be there for all of my years of life. — Valentina Shevchenko

I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out. — Harry Kane

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. — Red Adair

If something is not going to be an obvious double in a short period of time – you know, 2 to 3 years – I have to show interest. — Howard S. Marks

I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game. — Kawhi Leonard

I’ve been in martial arts for so many years, so to hold the belt of UFC and be on top of the biggest organization, it will be represented in this belt. — Valentina Shevchenko

A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame. — Ellyse Perry

Time To Retire Quotes

Investors should focus on the process rather than the outcome. Over time, a good process will lead to favorable outcomes. — Gautam Baid

Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn’t matter. I’m a fighter, and I’m ready to fight every time. — Valentina Shevchenko

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time – I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked. — Holly Holm

I’m not going to the past, and it’s not tied to me, every time moving forward, and this is more important – to move forward every time. — Valentina Shevchenko

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. — Shannon Alder

If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is – almost never. — Philip Arthur Fisher

The good news is that in business, you only need to hit one Grand Slam Offer to retire forever. I have done this four or five times in my life. — Alex Hormozi

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind. — Mary Berry

And that’s the point — why we’re here planting trees. It takes a long time to grow these systems and build these systems up. — Charles Hoskinson

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. — Mary Berry

Good Retirement Quotes

For a group to be great, both good governance and excellent execution are required. It’s not one or the other. — Koos Bekker

Investment success doesn’t come from ‘buying good things, but rather from ‘buying things well.’ — Howard S. Marks

Life is all about sharing. If we are good at something, pass it on. That is the pleasure I get from teaching – whether it is television or books. We should all share. — Mary Berry

I always had a lot of ideas, and I never thought I couldn’t do something. If you have a good idea and you believe in it, you just go for it. — Glen Bell

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I’m nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that. — Paul Pogba

Marketing is about telling good stories. Social media marketing is about getting your customers to tell them for you. — Ryan Deiss

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success. — Mary Berry

Even if I ain’t the famous-est, the richest, the best – as long as I know I kept it real and didn’t backstab nobody – I sleep good at night. — 21 Savage

In the stock market a good nervous system is even more important than a good head. — Philip Arthur Fisher

If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don’t need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad – because I know it. — Paul Pogba

Retirement Planning Quotes

One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. — Edward O. Thorp

Once you have a plan, always invest within the boundaries and parameters of your plan. Never bend your rules to accommodate your guts. — Naved Abdali

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. — Barack Obama

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. — Buzz Aldrin

I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans. — Liz Truss

Investment is somewhat like cricket, where you change your game plan as per the format. — Vijay Kedia

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best. — Benjamin Carson

Always have a goal, always have a second plan. — Cardi B

Better late than never is a bad plan for site reliability. — Cliff Lerner

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me. — Hugh Hefner

Teacher Retirement Quotes

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. - Karl A. Menninger

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. — Karl A. Menninger

Casino gambling with a system where you have the edge is a wonderful teacher for elementary money management. — Edward O. Thorp

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. — H. G. Wells

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly. — Lola J. May

My dad’s a teacher and a football coach, and he found a job in New Jersey. — Sadie Sink

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung

The children are now working as if I did not exist. — Maria Montessori

I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather. — Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself. — Evelyn Waugh

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Retirement Jokes Quotes

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. — George Burns

When one door closes, another one opens. — Alexander Graham Bell

There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It’s not bad to stay a little immature. — Kylian Mbappe

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. — Jonathan Clements

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. — Gene Perret

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. — Malcolm Forbes

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire! — Groucho Marx

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. — Gene Perret

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret

Retirement Humor Quotes

I have comedic things in my stuff, but I don’t consider myself a comedian. I’m just a YouTuber, I guess just a personality. — Ryan Higa

God has a plan for your retirement. — Billy Graham

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing! — Sophie Tucker

Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids. — Milton Jones

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

What do gardeners do when they retire? — Bob Monkhouse

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too. — Charles Baxter

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential. — Mason Cooley

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. — Gene Perret

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

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More Retirement Age Quotes

Chuck Liddell loves to fight. That's his passion. That's what he loves in life. But there comes a day and age - fighting is a young man's game. — Dana White

Optimistic young adults stay healthier throughout middle age and, ultimately, live longer than pessimists. — Angela Duckworth

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

It felt like the most natural thing in the world to do [to fly a plane at age 6]. — Edward Higgins White

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. — Joseph Addison

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks. — Alan Sillitoe

At the high end, retirees who had $500,000 or more right before retirement had spent down a median of only 11.8 percent of that money 20 years later or by the time they died. That’s more than 88 percent left over — which means that a person retiring at 65 with half a million dollars still has more than $440,000 left at age 85! At the lower end, retirees with less than $200,000 saved up for retirement spent a higher percentage as you might expect, since they had less to spend overall — but even this group’s median members had spent down only one-quarter of their assets 18 years after retirement. — Bill Perkins

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave. — William Shakespeare

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I’ll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies. — Martha C. Nussbaum

I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer. — Paul Pogba

In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age. — Harry Kane

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock. — Dave Allen

If there’s anything I like to do in my old age, it’s f*k a lot of melons. — Markiplier

Quality has no age. — Didier Deschamps

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love? — Jim James

For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death. — Bhartrhari

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

I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it. — Tommy Chong

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country. — Norman Schwarzkopf

I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless? — Stuart Rose

People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price. — George Burns

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. — Nadia Comaneci

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs. — Shane MacGowan

An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm. — Andre Maurois

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. — Frank Howard Clark

Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents. — Robert H. Jackson

As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever. — Lorin Maazel

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new. — Clint Eastwood

Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies. — Daniel Boone

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