Top 340 Retirement Quotes

Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers’ taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts.
Michelle Malkin
I’ve always said, if everything was equal, from money to retirement to endorsement opportunities – all that stuff – if everything was equal, I’d play Arena football over the NFL. It was built for quarterbacks. It was just backyard football.
Kurt Warner
By incentivising the building of more new retirement properties, we can take a step towards unblocking the housing market and ultimately help first-time buyers onto the ladder.
Damian Green
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
Ron Lewis
Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
Ezra Taft Benson
Since retirement, I have been given the opportunity to spend time with my family. I have three children, aged 16, 14 and one. That is what is really important to me. I have also done a little commentating in Australia and am part of the MRF academy in Chennai.
Glenn McGrath
Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It’s got labels on it – OAP, retirement – and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.
Julie Walters
The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.
Mona Sutphen
The first time I fantasized about early retirement, I was 22 years old. It was a rainy spring morning in Paris, and as I waited for the Metro to take me to my new paralegal job, it occurred to me that I’d rather be sleeping in, or playing hooky at the movies, or sailing around the world.
Suleika Jaouad
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.
Drew Carey
I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.
Mark Henry
I don’t hate the idea of retirement. I am looking forward to it.
Edwin van der Sar
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain’s draconian union laws – already among the toughest in Europe – harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
Frances O’Grady
Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
Sue Kelly
We’ve got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.
Ken Buck
I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.
Mirko Cro Cop
Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
John Gregory Dunne
If you’re not putting enough away for emergencies or retirement, making commitments in advance, such as signing up for payroll withholding, can help.
Richard Thaler
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Sander Levin
It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
Davy Jones
People are working hard, they’re doing everything we ask of them, and they are still struggling. It’s not enough to just have a job. We need to make sure that these are good-paying jobs that pay the rent and put food on the table. Jobs that have benefits like health care and that allow people to save for retirement.
Chris Murphy
My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.
Stephanie Land
Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.
Steve Israel
To those state and local government employees who care deeply about this issue, let me be crystal clear: Under my watch, your IPERS is safe. It will not change; it will be protected; and you will have the retirement you were promised. Period.
Kim Reynolds
The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.
Greg Gianforte
I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
Mitt Romney
I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.
Paul Hogan
When employees are first eligible for a retirement savings plan, they should be enrolled unless they choose to opt out.
Richard Thaler
The decision to incentivise savings for pension funds augurs well for infrastructure financing and retirement planning.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.
Charles Kennedy
When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, ‘I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.’
Manika
The highest-income Americans don’t need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
Steven Rattner
I think the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement. When you do that, you get old and you get sick and you die.
Frank Sinatra Jr.
He has been a world champion – great for him – but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I’m here waiting for him because I’m the best British fighter to come out of these shores.
Tyson Fury
The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to balance the federal budget. The debate over Social Security should not be about raising the retirement age or limiting benefits. The debate over Social Security should be about retirement security.
Sherrod Brown
But while the state pension is a critical foundation for people’s financial security as they age, it must be supplemented with other forms of retirement income.
David Gauke
I think the day of retirement will come when I go out t

I think the day of retirement will come when I go out there and do everything I was supposed to do and I still can’t perform. I’m going out there and I’m a danger to myself, then it stresses your family out.
Frank Mir
Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.
Simon Mainwaring
I don’t even think about a retirement program because I’m working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord’s pay isn’t very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.
George Foreman
Living each day as if it were your last doesn’t mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.
Jack Canfield
Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers.
Ron Lewis
I have a really good relationship with Bayern. I might become a coach after retirement, but with the youth teams.
Franck Ribery
40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.
Misty Copeland
I was fishing with director Frank Capra once and we talked about retirement.
Fred MacMurray
I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one’s retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
Barbara Boxer
Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older – the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form – no ifs, ands, or buts.
Norm Coleman
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.
Dwight L. Moody
Raising the age of Social Security retirement is not the answer. For so many jobs that are back-breaking jobs, physically burdensome jobs, we’re raising the age already to 67. These people are going to struggle to get to that point.
Brad Schneider
I don’t want to live with the guilt of messing up someone’s retirement fund.
Romesh Wadhwani
I haven’t quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
Walter Cronkite
I like retirement.
Barry Sanders
At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.
Allen Iverson
Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don’t have to retire.
Joan Hickson
President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country’s retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.
John Doolittle