Inspirational Retirement Quotations
With quotations from others, we can see their wisdom and wit. If you are looking for retirement wishes for your friends or colleagues, you can use following inspirational retirement quotations. Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement. - Stephen Leacock Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. - Author Unknown Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Thomas Dylan I love everything that’s old; old-friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. - Oliver Goldsmith Planning to retire? Before you do find your hidden passion, do the thing that you have always wanted to do. - Catherine Pulsifer Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. - T. S. Eliot All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another. - Anatole France It takes a long time to become young. - Pablo Picasso Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. - Confucius Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. - Lois McMaster Bujold Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. - Author Unknown To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. - Robert Fritz Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To the unlearned, old age is winter; to the learned, spring. - Author Unknown Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas McArthur There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it "retirement." I call it bliss. - Betty Sullivan Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. - Basil Carpenter The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,but that it is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. - Lauren Bacall Yes, I am thoroughly enjoying retirement! The best part is observing my neighbors drive off to work in the morning knowing that that their day will be filled with jerks, brainless and endless meetings, jerks, vendor lunches where you hold your breath just waiting for the sales pitch until you regurgitate your pasta, more jerks and the eventual company reorganization of the section that was just reorganized last month! - Bill Kalmar The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas Edison When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. - Benjamin Franklin If you want more retirement quotations, please see next pages. Help yourself~ Return from Inspirational Retirement Quotations to Retirement Wishes Return from Inspirational Retirement Quotations to Roth IRA Guidelines
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