Retirement is usually a time to sit back and reflect on the productive years spent dedicated to achieving your goals.
This celebration of the culmination of hard work calls for an inspirational message to be shared with family and friends. Here are the best retirement quotes that provide an enriching and motivational touch that can spread joy and happiness on this special milestone.
Funny Retirement Quotes
"I can't wait to retire so I can get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and go drive around really slow and make everybody late for work." — Unknown*
"Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing" - A. A. Milne
"The company gave me an aptitude test, and I found out the best work I was best suited for was retirement." – Unknown*
"Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed." - Ruby Dee
"Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands." - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"When you retire, you switch bosses – from the one who hired you to the one who married you." — Unknown*
"I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers – they just fade away." ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Funny thing about retirement, it kills more people than work ever did." – Malcolm Forbes
"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking." - Gail Sheehy
"The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does." – Unknown*
"There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit . . . . retire!" – Groucho Marx
"You know you're ready to retire when you think "getting lucky" means finding your car in the parking lot." – Unknown*
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — A. A. Milne
"Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too." ― Charles Baxter
"He who laughs last at the boss's jokes probably isn't far from retirement." — Unknown*
"I need to retire from retirement." – Sandra Day O'Connor
"The best thing about retirement is not having to wear pants!" ― Mark Hewer
"When you've got to go, you've got to go!" – Unknown*
"Retirement is when having a good time is your only job." – Unknown*
"It's a good, quiet retirement. Most days I do nothing, but it takes me all day to do it." – Barry Wilkin
Happy Retirement Quotes
"A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job." – Ella Harris
"There is no sense in being pessimistic about your retirement. It wouldn't work anyway." – Unknown*
"A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell 'em to get a life." –Larry Laser
"I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired." – Dick Van Dyke
"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
"When some people retire, it's going to be hard to be able to tell the difference." – Virginia Graham
"Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up." – Patrick Macnee
"The world's longest coffee break is often referred to as retirement." - Unknown*
"The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things." - Susan Miller
"I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself." – Walt Mossberg
"Fear no more the heat of the sun nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages." – William Shakespeare
"You are a person I really admire because you are a person who gets to retire." — Unknown*
"For many, retirement is a time for personal growth, which becomes the path to greater freedom." – Robert Delamontague
"I never reveal my age, but I do let people know I'm retired. They can just guess my age from that statement." - Unknown*
"I'm not just retiring from the company; I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron." – Hartman Jule
"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off." – Abe Lemons
"What do you call a person who is happy on a Monday? Retired." - Unknown*
"I have never liked working. To me, a job is an invasion of privacy." –Danny McGoorty
"Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials– much to live on and much to live for." – Unknown*
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." - J. Lubbock
"Time spent in laughter when one is retired is well invested." – Unknown*
"When is a retiree's bedtime? About 30 minutes after they fall asleep on the couch? - Unknown*
"When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income." - Chi Chi Rodriguez
"The best part about retirement is spending time with the grandkids." - Unknown*
"Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, 'Hi, Honey, I'm home—forever.'" – Gene Perret
"In retirement, every day is Boss Day, and every day is Employee Appreciation Day." - Unknown*
Inspirational Retirement Quotes
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"You get old faster when you think about retirement." - Toba Beta
"Something pretty… that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it." – Jeanne Moreau
"Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day." ― Kathy Gottberg
"Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further." ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income." - George Foreman
"The combination of money illusion and compound inflation is the most impactful risk to your retirement plan." ― Coreen T. Sol
"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard
"I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day." – Gene Perret
"Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we do not know it." - Oprah Winfrey
"If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll." — Bruce Dickinson
"Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway." – Unknown*
"Wisdom is the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." – Abigail Adams
"We have a retirement crisis in America today not from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision." ― Dave Ramsey
"You don't stop laughing when you age; you age when you stop laughing." - Unknown*
"Sooner or later, I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire." – Margaret Mead
"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working." – Unknown*
"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
"The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them" - Frank Eberhart
"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue." ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box." – Bette Davis
"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire." – Samuel Johnson
"Choose a work that you love, and you won't have to work another day." – Confucius
"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else." – Fred Rogers
"I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die." - Yasunari Kawabata
"It is paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone." - Andy Rooney
"Retirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living." – Unknown*
"As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning." – Earl Nightingale
"I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off." - Steve Young
"I'm not just retiring from the company. I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron." - Hartman Jule
"As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning." - Earl Nightingale
"My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'" –Chris Pine
Short Retirement Quotes
"Except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did." - Robert Benchley
"Retirement: No job, no stress, no pay!" - Unknown*
"Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice." - Dianne Nahirny
"Let's retire the word retire!" ― Mary Helen Conroy
"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five, I still had pimples." - George Burns
"Retirement is the only time in your life when time no longer equals money." - Unknown*
"I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave." - Hugh Hefner
"My shoes came out of retirement to dance the night away with you." - Anthony T. Hincks
"Now Fridays aren't the best day of the week anymore… they all are!" - Unknown*
"My retirement plan is to get thrown into a minimum security prison in Hawaii." –Julius Sharpe
"The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm." – John C. Maxwell
"Retire from work, but not from life." - M.K. Soni
"There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!" - Groucho Marx
"You're retired - goodbye tension, hello pension!" - Unknown*
"It is better to live rich than to die rich." – Samuel Johnson
Heartwarming Retirement Quotes
"Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money." – Jonathan Clements
"Those who are motivated to work till old age to build a huge retirement corpus are required to provision for less number of years after retirement!" ― D. S. Pandit
"Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it." - Gene Perret
"Retirement is a blank sheet of paper. It is a chance to redesign your life into something new and different." - Patrick Foley
"Retirement is when you stop lying about your age and start lying around the house." - Unknown*
"I already know my mission in retirement age will be to help others realize they are not too old to live the dreams of their youth." ― Richie Norton
"You might retire from a job but never retire from making contributions. Indeed, life is about contribution, not accumulation." – Hyrum W. Smith
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." - Alan Lakein
"Retirement sounds appropriate when you are aging, fact is you aged because you have been thinking of retirement." ― Amit Kalantri
"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working." –Unknown*
"I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself." - Walt Mossberg
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." - Oscar Wilde
"Retire the word 'retirement' from your vocabulary. Look it up: it means to 'withdraw' or 'retreat.'" – Marika Stone
"Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been." - J.A. West
"The company gave me an aptitude test, and I found out the work I was best suited for was retirement." - Unknown*
"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Retirement Quotes for Coworkers
"You have to put off being young until you can retire." - Unknown*
"It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese." - Gene Perret
"All these years, you may have been the boss, but now all that goes out for a toss. " – Unknown*
"Age is just a number, but retirement is one of the greatest gifts to mankind." - Unknown*
"Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of those is work." - Clarence Darrow
"Never regret getting old. Not many get the chance" ― Richie Norton
"Stay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living." – Danielle Duckery
"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves." - Bruce Grocott
"Throughout your career, you have been someone's boss. Retirement is your chance to be your own." – Unknown*
"Life starts at retirement." – Unknown*
"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
"We have had many good times, and now as you retire, you will make new memories." – Unknown*
"The best part about being retired is never having to request time off." ~ Unknown*
"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
"You can't retire from being great." - Unknown*
"When one door closes, another one opens." - Alexander Graham Bell
"Retirement brings the ball to your court, where you make the rules." – Unknown*
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"Retirement, a time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, where you want to do it, and how you want to do it." - Catherine Pulsifer
"Retire from your job, but never retire your mind." - Unknown*
"Happy days are here, at last, the days of nine to five are past, you've worked your life and paid your dues, now you can do just what you choose!" – Unknown*
