Top 340 Retirement Quotes

However, the Administration’s plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won’t make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

I don’t disagree with ending Congress’ retirement program. I’m a governor; I don’t have a retirement program in my state, and I don’t disagree with that.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I’m enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.

Everyone thinks about retirement at some point.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.

Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.

If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it’s all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.

I announced my retirement from international cricket in May 2018 because I wanted to reduce my workload and spend more time with my wife and young sons. Some have insisted I was motivated purely by money. They are wrong.

Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

That retirement plan I had, getting out by 32, may still be the case even though at the minute it’s in the back of my mind. It’s important to get out at the right time.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.

I was born in Karachi, where my father used to work in the sales department of a pharmaceutical company. The nature of his job required him to travel, so we moved to Athens, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh and then went to Manchester during the Gulf War, moving back to Lahore closer to my father’s retirement.

To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, ‘Mad Men’ offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy – and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

There are two ways I would consider retirement. One is losing to guys who are not top-level competition. The other is if I started losing where it’s like, ‘OK man, you were knocked out viciously and staring at the rafters.’ I won’t endanger my health.

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Retirement isn’t what it used to be. It used to be you retired and you disappeared off the face of the Earth. Now you have social media. I keep in touch with all my fans. It’s great.

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people – the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

Retirement isn’t so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of ‘Matlock,’ and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

I’m great at retirement. I’m excelling at retirement… I’ve loved every second of it.

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

What if we thought of health and security in retirement as one basket?

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

The word ‘retirement’ doesn’t really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, ‘Alright, I’m going to hang up my guitar,’ but people will still not let you retire.

I think retirement’s for old people. I’m still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I’m enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

Retirement’s 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’s time to enjoy my retirement.

The business of looking good is very difficult. This has often made me consider retirement from films.

My father calls acting ‘a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.’

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

At the end of the 2017 season I was on the brink of retirement and I had a decision to make: quit playing or do things differently. I chose to do things differently – with my approach to practice, recovery, nutrition and many other things.

The boomers’ biggest impact will be on eliminating the term ‘retirement’ and inventing a new stage of life… the new career arc.

I expect to work for as long as I can. I can’t imagine retirement.

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly – counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn’t a winning strategy – but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.

A comfortable retirement should not only be a luxury for the wealthy, but a reality for every New Yorker.

Payroll savings plans are vital because they are essentially the only way that middle-class Americans reliably save for retirement.

I haven’t thought of retirement yet, but when I stop enjoying the game or when injuries force me, I will quit.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly – which does not include pension and retirement accounts – then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

You can imagine, if somebody’s approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

To be honest, retirement has been good.

I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.

I am a Georgia guy, and I have Brett Favre’s card when he played with the Atlanta Falcons. That’s my retirement plan.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation’s responsibility, that’s going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

Sequestration will make it extremely challenging – and in many cases impossible – for employees to meet their mortgage payments, pay their healthcare expenses, plan for retirement, or help their children attend college. To be blunt, these families are at risk.

I don’t believe in retirement.

Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I’m sure people thought I was going to come back.

The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children’s education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.

My parents and friends, they’re Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don’t have any money for retirement. Highs and lows of life.