Cool Quote & Retirement Message Ideas
Retirement is full of new experiences and anticipations. If you're planning a retirement party of giving a retirement gift or retirement card with a special message, we have dozens of quotes of all kinds here. How about happiness, success, experience, aging, imagination, change, humor, health … and lots more. You can use these for meaningful or humorous retirement advice, or something uplifting for elderly issues loved ones may be experiencing. We’ve assembled a nice collection of retirement message quotes, as well as for inspirational, birthday, anniversary. They’ll be especially great for making your own greeting cards, posters, flyers, or to use with special art work and gifts. Perhaps you may want to include something personal and extra in a card you already have. Or if you need a retirement message for a speech or party, take a look at this variety. You will see many famous people represented, and some you may not know, in this page of fun quotes and retirement message ideas. So use your own imagination to put them to use! 
Retirement & Work - Retirement Message or Quote Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them. Planning to retire? Before you do find your hidden passion, do the thing that you have always wanted to do. Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. 
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.Howard Newton A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to someone. When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. Work is love made visible. Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. 
Success & Experience - Retirement Message or QuoteSuccess is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. 
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.Anatole France We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. An optimist is the human personification of spring. 
Health - Retirement Message or Quote So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. Eat few suppers, and you’ll need few medicines. The greatest wealth is health. 
Aging - Retirement Message or Quote The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. 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. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. It takes a long time to become young. I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. 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. The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. 
Attitude & Character - Retirement Message or Quote The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. What you are will show in what you do. Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. Education is the progressive discovery of our ignorance. Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one. Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. 
Money & Wealth - Retirement Message or Quote I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. There are people who have money and people who are rich. It’s better to live rich than to die rich. We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves. The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. 
Change & Opportunity - Retirement Message or Quote When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache. 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. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. 
Imagination & Thinking - Retirement Message or Quote Imagination is more important than Knowledge. To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. Imagination rules the world. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. 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. All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. 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. Change your thoughts and you change your world. You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it. Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours. …yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. Return from Cool Quote & Retirement Message Ideas
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