{"id":25701,"date":"2019-06-10T07:27:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gifts.com\/blog\/?p=25701"},"modified":"2019-06-10T07:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:27:50","slug":"retirement-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gifts.com\/blog\/retirement-quotes","title":{"rendered":"101 Retirement Quotes for Every Type of Retiree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retirement is a huge milestone in a person\u2019s life. This new season is marked with excitement, relief and maybe a little uncertainty. A lifetime of preparation goes into this life changing decision, and it is certainly grounds for celebration. If you know someone that is retiring, send them the perfect retirement gift<\/a> and a note to honor and encourage them as they start this next chapter.<\/p>\n

Sometimes no matter how hard you try, you can\u2019t come up with the right words. To help you write the perfect celebratory retirement card, we\u2019ve compiled a list of retirement quotes for every person. Whether you want to make your loved one laugh or feel inspired, there is sure to be the perfect sentiment for you!<\/p>\n

Funny Retirement Quotes<\/h2>\n

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  1. \u201cThe trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.\u201d \u2013 Abe Lemons<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cThe best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cFunny thing about retirement, it kills more people than work ever did.\u201d \u2013 Malcolm Forbes<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cMy parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.\u201d \u2013 Jerry Seinfeld<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cWhen some people retire, it’s going to be hard to be able to tell the difference.\u201d \u2013 Virginia Graham<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cWorking people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.\u201d \u2013 Clarence Darrow<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cRetirement: No Job, No Stress, No Pay!\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cI\u2019m not just retiring from the company; I\u2019m also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.\u201d \u2013 Hartman Jule<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cHe who laughs last at the boss\u2019s jokes probably isn\u2019t far from retirement.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  10. \u201cRetirement: When you stop lying about your age and start lying around the house.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  11. \u201cI have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.\u201d \u2013 Danny McGoorty<\/li>\n
  12. \u201cI enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.\u201d \u2013 Gene Perret<\/li>\n
  13. \u201cWe 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!\u201d \u2013 Dave Allen<\/li>\n
  14. \u201cA retired husband is often a wife\u2019s full-time job.\u201d \u2013 Ella Harris<\/li>\n
  15. “Retirement: The pay sucks but the hours are great.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  16. \u201cIt\u2019s a good, quiet retirement. Most days I do nothing, but it takes me all day to do it.\u201d \u2013 Barry Wilkin<\/li>\n
  17. \u201cRetirement: World\u2019s longest coffee break.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  18. \u201cThere are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.\u201d \u2013 Robert Half<\/li>\n
  19. \u201cRetirement: That\u2019s when you return from work one day and say, Hi, Honey, I\u2019m home\u2014forever.\u201d
    \n\u2013 Gene Perret<\/li>\n
  20. You know you’re ready to retire when you think \u201cgetting lucky\u201d means finding your car in the parking lot. \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  21. \u201cMy retirement plan is to get thrown into a minimum security prison in Hawaii.\u201d \u2013 Julius Sharpe<\/li>\n
  22. \u201cYou\u2019re retired – goodbye tension, hello pension!\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  23. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve got to go, you\u2019ve got to go!\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  24. \u201cRetirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.\u201d \u2013 Gene Perret<\/li>\n
  25. \u201cThere is no sense in being pessimistic about your retirement. It wouldn\u2019t work anyway.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
  26. \u201cThe company gave me an aptitude test and I found out the best work I was best suited for was retirement\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/span><\/li>\n
  27. \u201cFear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter\u2019s rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.\u201d \u2013 William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Inspirational Retirement Quotes<\/h2>\n

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    1. \u201cDon\u2019t act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.\u201d
      \n\u2013 J. A. West<\/li>\n
    2. \u201cThere is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it retirement. I call it bliss.\u201d \u2013 Betty Sullivan<\/li>\n
    3. \u201cRetirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
    4. \u201cHalf our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.\u201d \u2013 Will Rogers<\/li>\n
    5. \u201cRetirement, a time to enjoy all the things you never had time to do when you worked.\u201d
      \n\u2013 Catherine Pulsifer<\/li>\n
    6. \u201cWhen you \u2018retire,\u2019 you\u2019re on your own. No longer is most of your life ahead. You don\u2019t have forever to fulfill promises. But there\u2019s also good news: Now, going forward, can be the most important part of your life, when it all comes together \u2013 your experience, wisdom, and successes.\u201d ~ Michael Jeans<\/span><\/li>\n
    7. \u201cOften when you think you\u2019re at the end of something, you\u2019re at the beginning of something else.\u201d
      \n\u2013 Fred Rogers<\/li>\n
    8. \u201cFor many, retirement is a time for personal growth, which becomes the path to greater freedom.\u201d \u2013 Robert Delamontague<\/li>\n
    9. \u201cThe harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.\u201d \u2013 Vince Lombardi<\/li>\n
    10. \u201c… believe that your greatest contribution is always ahead of you. You might retire from a job, but never retire from making contributions. Indeed, life is about contribution, not accumulation.\u201d
      \n\u2013 Hyrum W. Smith<\/li>\n
    11. \u201cRetire the word \u2018retirement\u2019 from your vocabulary. Look it up: it means to \u2018withdraw\u2019 or \u2018retreat.\u2019 Words can shape reality, and it\u2019s time for this one to go. Doesn\u2019t \u2018renaissance\u2019 or \u2018graduation\u2019 or \u2018transition\u2019 better describe your post-career life?\u201d \u2013 Marika Stone<\/li>\n
    12. \u201cRetirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself.\u201d
      \n\u2013 Hartman Jule<\/li>\n
    13. \u201cDon\u2019t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.\u201d \u2013 Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/li>\n
    14. \u201cRetirement\u2019s the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it\u2019s time to enjoy my retirement.\u201d \u2013 Patrick Macnee<\/li>\n
    15. \u201cThere\u2019s one thing I always wanted to do before I quit… retire!\u201d \u2013 Groucho Marx<\/li>\n
    16. \u201cRetirement is wonderful if you have two essentials \u2014 much to live on and much to live for.\u201d
      \n\u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
    17. \u201cRetirement is a blank sheet of paper. It is a chance to redesign your life into something new and different.\u201d \u2013 Patrick Foley<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Happy Retirement Quotes<\/h2>\n

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      1. \u201cDare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.\u201d \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/li>\n
      2. \u201cRest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer\u2019s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.\u201d \u2013 J. Lubbock<\/li>\n
      3. \u201cFor retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.\u201d
        \n\u2013 John Sharp Williams<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. \u201cYou can retire, but you can\u2019t retire from being great!\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
      5. \u201cRetirement is when having a good time is your only job.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
      6. \u201cAnd in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.\u201d \u2013 Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n
      7. \u201cRetirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
      8. \u201cHappy days are here at last, the days of nine to five are past, you\u2019ve worked your life and paid your dues, now you can do just what you choose!\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
      9. \u201cTime spent in laughter when one is retired is well invested.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
      10. “As your life changes, it takes time to recalibrate, to find your values again. You might also find that retirement is the time when you stretch out and find your potential.” \u2013 Sid Miramontes<\/li>\n
      11. \u201cRetirement, a perfect time to do what you want to, when you want to, where you want to do it, and, exactly how you want to do it.\u201d \u2013 Catherine Pulsifer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Short Retirement Quotes<\/h2>\n

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        1. \u201cRetirement is wonderful. It\u2019s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.\u201d
          \n\u2013 Gene Perret<\/li>\n
        2. \u201cI guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.\u201d
          \n\u2013 The Shawshank Redemption<\/li>\n
        3. \u201cStay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living.\u201d \u2013 Danielle Duckery<\/li>\n
        4. “The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.” \u2013 Susan Miller<\/li>\n
        5. \u201cThere\u2019s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.\u201d \u2013 Bill Waterson, Calvin & Hobbes<\/li>\n
        6. \u201cLife starts at retirement.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        7. “Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.” \u2013 Dianne Nahirny<\/li>\n
        8. “Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” \u2013 Harry Emerson Fosdick<\/li>\n
        9. \u201cRetirement brings the ball to your court, where you make the rules.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        10. \u201cIn retirement it\u2019s not the years in your life. It\u2019s the life in your years.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        11. \u201cRetire from work, but not from life.\u201d \u2013 M.K. Soni<\/li>\n
        12. \u201cRetiring from work does not mean retiring from life! It is just the beginning not the end!\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        13. “RETIREMENT – now life begins.” \u2013 Catherine Pulsifer<\/li>\n
        14. \u201cYou have to put off being young until you can retire.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        15. \u201cRetirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.\u201d \u2013 Abigail Charleson<\/span><\/li>\n
        16. \u201cWhat do you call someone who\u2019s happy on Mondays? Retired!\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        17. \u201cYou can’t retire from being great!\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        18. \u201cRetirement is when you start working at living and quit living at work.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        19. \u201cRetirement is a time to enjoy what you have been working so hard for.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        20. \u201cDon\u2019t just retire from something; have something you retire to.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
        21. \u201cThe challenge to retirement is spending more time without spending more money.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Retirement Quotes for Your Boss<\/h2>\n

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          1. \u201cThe boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.\u201d \u2013 John C. Maxwell<\/li>\n
          2. \u201cA good boss realizes that they can also learn from those they work with no matter the level, title or position. Learning is a continuous habit and is one of the best lessons demonstrated by a good boss.\u201d \u2013 Byron Pulsifer<\/li>\n
          3. \u201cAll these years you may have been the boss, but now all that goes out for a toss. Retirement marks the end of your reigning thunder, because without your job title you\u2019re no more than a mere commoner\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
          4. \u201cA good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.\u201d \u2013 H. S. M. Burns<\/li>\n
          5. \u201cUntil now you may have thought that life\u2019s biggest battles are fought in the boardroom\u2026 but now as you retire and spend more time at home, you\u2019ll realize that they\u2019re actually fought in the kitchen.\u201d
            \n\u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
          6. \u201cHe who laughs last at the boss\u2019s jokes probably isn\u2019t far from retirement.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
          7. \u201cWe have had many good times, and now as you retire you will make new memories.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/span><\/li>\n
          8. \u201cEnjoy every day and don’t forget us!, unfortunately we will be here for awhile!\u201d \u2013 Kate Summers<\/li>\n
          9. Throughout your career you have been someone\u2019s boss. Retirement is your chance to be your own.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
          10. \u201cRetirement is when you switch bosses from the one who hired you to the one who married you.\u201d
            \n\u2013 Gene Perret<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Retirement Quotes for Teachers<\/h2>\n

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            1. \u201cThe teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.\u201d \u2013 Kahlil Gibran<\/li>\n
            2. \u201cA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.\u201d \u2013 Henry Brooks Adams<\/li>\n
            3. \u201cThe task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparently ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.\u201d
              \n\u2013 K. Patricia Cross<\/li>\n
            4. \u201cWhat the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.\u201d \u2013 Karl Menninger<\/li>\n
            5. \u201cI’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead- ahead of myself as well as you.\u201d \u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n
            6. \u201cA teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.\u201d \u2013 Elbert Hubbard<\/li>\n
            7. \u201cThe best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.\u201d \u2013 Anne Michaels<\/li>\n
            8. \u201cOne looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.\u201d \u2013 Carl Jung<\/li>\n
            9. \u201cThe mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.\u201d \u2013 William Arthur Ward<\/li>\n
            10. \u201cThe greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’\u201d \u2013 \u00a0Maria Montessori<\/li>\n
            11. \u201cI am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.\u201d \u2013 Alexander of Macedon<\/li>\n
            12. \u201cThe test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.\u201d
              \n\u2013 Alice Rollins<\/li>\n
            13. \u201cOld teachers never die; they just grade away\u201d \u2013 Anonymous<\/li>\n
            14. \u201cThere are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.\u201d \u2013 Lola May<\/li>\n
            15. \u201cSomeone once said, There are two good reasons to be a teacher \u2014 July and August. In fact, there are three good reasons to be a teacher. The third reason is retirement.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              How to Congratulate Someone on Their Retirement<\/h2>\n

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              It is time to celebrate! If you are looking for ways to honor your friend or loved one as they enter this next phase of life, check out these celebration ideas!<\/p>\n