Retire richly. Book reviews.
Old age quotes.
The journey into retirement and beyond is a significant milestone, marking the culmination of decades of professional dedication and personal growth. It invites a redefinition of purpose and the opportunity to explore new passions, relationships, and priorities. Seniors may embrace their veteran years with dignity, gratitude, and optimism that underscores the importance of their resilience, fulfillment, and their rich legacy.
This compilation brings together thoughtful and insightful quotations that honor the dignity of aging, the joy found in reflection, and the strength required to navigate transitions gracefully. Whether intended for use in retirement celebrations, commemorative speeches, or personal contemplation, these quotations provide timeless wisdom and encouragement to those entering their senior years, reminding them that aging is both an achievement and a new beginning.
SENIOR QUOTES - OLD AGE QUOTES
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” - Mark Twain
"Age is just a number, but retirement is one of the greatest gifts to mankind." - Unknown
“Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.” - Bernard Baruch
“Age is simply the number of years the world has been enjoying you.” - Unknown
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” - Kitty O'Neill Collins
“As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.” - Earl Nightingale
"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time." - Margaret Bonnano
"Count your age by friends, not years." - John Lennon
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born." - Albert Einstein
"Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been." - J. A. West
“Don't count the days, make the days count — especially in retirement.” - Unknown
"Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life." - John Wooden
“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you will look back and realize they were the big things.” - Robert Brault
“Every morning in retirement is a personal holiday.” - Unknown
"How do you know it's time to retire? It's when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it." - Unknown
“I hope we’ll get lucky enough to grow old together.” - Paula Mclain
"I need to retire from retirement." - Sandra Day O'Connor
"I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be." - Walter Cronkite
"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten." - Tony Robbins
“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey
“It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love’s highest intensity doesn’t necessarily mean its highest quality.” - Booth Tarkington
“It’s never too late to live the life you want.” - Unknown
“It's not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln
“It's the beginning of the third act: your time to shine.” - Unknown
BOOK REVIEWS - RETIREMENT FINANCES
SENIOR QUOTES - OLD AGE QUOTES (MORE)
“Keep active. Retirement isn't a reason to slow down.” - Unknown
“Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.” - Alexander Pope
“Life begins at retirement.” - Unknown
“Life is meant for good friends and great adventures after retirement.” - Unknown
“May your retirement be filled with joyful memories and new adventures.” - Unknown
"My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law." - Jerry Seinfeld
“Retire from work, but not from life.” - M.K. Soni
“Retire from worry, keep busy with joy.” - Unknown
“Retire gracefully, live joyfully.” - Unknown
“Retire smart so you can enjoy every moment.” - Unknown
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.” - George Burns
“Retirement doesn't mean a life without purpose. It means life with new purpose.” - Unknown
“Retirement gives you the time literally to recreate yourself through a sport, game or hobby that you always wanted to try or that you haven't done in years.” - Steven Price
“Retirement is having nothing to do and all day to do it.” - Unknown
“Retirement is like a software update for your life. Everything runs smoother.” - Unknown
“Retirement is the freedom to wake up every day without an alarm clock.” - Unknown
“Retirement is the golden sunset that ends a chapter and begins another.” - Unknown
“Retirement is the icing on the cake of a productive life.” - Unknown
“Retirement is the masterpiece you’ve been investing in all your life.” - Unknown
"Retirement is the only time in your life when time no longer equals money." - Unknown
“Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were working.” - Unknown
“Retirement is when having a good time is your only job.” - Unknown
“Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials — much to live on and much to live for.” - Unknown
“Retirement lets you enjoy the gifts of life at your own pace.” - Unknown
“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.” - Simone de Beauvoir
BOOK REVIEWS - RETIREMENT LIFESTYLE
SENIOR QUOTES - OLD AGE QUOTES (MORE)
“Retirement means mastery of the art of leisure.” - Unknown
“Retirement should come as a surprise... a good one.” - Unknown
“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
"Retirement: When you stop lying about your age and start lying around the house." - Unknown
“Retiring doesn’t mean you stop doing the things you love.” - Unknown
“Retiring isn't giving up; it's picking up new dreams.” - Unknown
"Say goodbye to tension and hello to your pension." - Unknown
“Step into retirement with a grateful heart and open mind.” - Unknown
"Success is doing what you want to do when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want." - Tony Robbins
"The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms." - Chris Brogan
“The goal of retirement is to enjoy and appreciate every day.” - Unknown
“The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.” - Susan Miller
“There are far better things ahead than we ever leave behind.” - C. S. Lewis
"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
“To retire is to begin a new and exciting chapter in life’s story.” - Unknown
“We are always the same age inside.” - Gertrude Stein
"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking." - Gail Sheehy
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C. S. Lewis
"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." - George Burns
“Your life after retirement is up to you.” - Unknown
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” - Jim Rohn