Inspirational
Retirement Quotes

Ok I put my hands up, yes there are one or two cheesy retirement quotes in here but I'm sure you'll get plenty of inspiration anyway from this great Top 10 list.

Like a lot of things in life, your attitude to change is what counts. So just make retirement another excuse to do what you love everyday. Do what you love everyday. Did I just say that already! : )

A Top 10 List of
Inspirational Quotes for Retirement

1:

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art."

- Eleanor Roosevelt



2:

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

- Emily Dickinson



3:

"Old age is like everything else.
To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

- Fred Astaire



4:

"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly.
You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

- Eleanor Roosevelt



5:

"One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late."

- Pablo Picasso



6:

"You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world
and there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

- Henry Ford



7:

"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,…"

- Robert Browning



8:

"The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines."

- Plato



9:

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

- Gene Perret



10:

"The man who views the world at fifty
the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

- Muhammad Ali

and there's more...

"Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it."

- Abigail Charleson

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

- George Foreman

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"We have no porch, no rocking chair — and no time.
My biggest need is a calendar because there are so many things to do.
Now I encourage people to retire — the younger the better."

- Maurice Musholt

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