Retirement Quotations

Retirement Quotations.

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Retirement quotations can make your speech or remarks come alive and set the tone for your message.

We embrace the idea that retirement presents an opportunity to reinvent yourself.

These retirement quotations are meant to to inspire you, or the retiree to live life fully, to enjoy retirement with joy and continued growth.

Enjoy this assortment of quotes:

"It has become clear to most of us that we don’t want “our father’s retirement”; the only thing that needs to be retired are old ideas about retirement.

Our greatest fear and insecurity for our later years should not be about the Social Security system or about being broke but rather about being without purpose and meaningful work."
Mitch Anthony, author of The New Retirementality

“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, financier, statesman.

“We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old, but more like ourselves.” May Lamberton Becker, author

“Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have reached a great age, I might as well be 20.”
Pablo Picasso, artist.

“If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough.”
Phyllis Diller, comedian.

“Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples” George Burns, comedian.

“To retire is to begin to die.”
Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor

“Don’t simply retire from something, have something to retire to.”
Henry Emerson Fosdik, minister

“Retirement is the ugliest word in the English language.”
Ernest Hemingway, author.

“The best time to start thinking about retirement is before your boss does.” Anonymous

“Retirement is not a vicarious experience.”
Marian Yunghans, editor Pacific Northwest Magazine.

“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so that I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.”
Mark Twain, author

“There’s no future to just sitting.”
John Gunther, author

“In every change is an opportunity.”
Hugh Wiley, author of Dancing with Change

"Retirement has been built on myths.

Many retired individuals are growing more miserable each passing day by sitting on a lifetime of knowledge that no one seems interested in anymore.

Generally speaking, we are not a species that is engineered to be happy doing nothing.

To eradicate work from out life is to deny a meaningful aspect of our life. It is a denial of our very soul. Our soul finds pleasure in meaningful labor and productivity.

It could be said that it is an illusion of youth to desire a “workless” life."
Mitch Anthony, author of The New Retirementality

“Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique and every man or woman’s foremost task is the actualization of his or her unique, unprecedented and never-recurring possibilities.”
Martin Buber, philosopher

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Retirement brings one of life’s most significant changes. In every change there is an opportunity, and we want to help you mine it!

You have so much to offer. Your unique combination of skills, abilities and attitudes can be recombined, repackaged and added to by developing your latent abilities and forgotten desires.

So use our resources to live the most exciting phase of your life yet!

Downloadable materials

A book, Dancing with Change describes transitions fully. You will learn how to develop your desires into a plan that you can execute. Three steps await your activation to an exciting challenge that is unique to you alone.

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Two workbooks that aid you to work through the two BIG concerns of retirement:
- What is my purpose; where do I find meaning?
- How do my partner and I manage all this time we have together?

It’s your retirement. Are you ready?

Beyond Your Career: Reinventing Retirement makes it easy to face one of the most significant changes in your life. This step-by-step workbook offers guidance and support as you develop a personal plan that takes you to new beginnings.
All of us need a purpose. Retirement is no exception and the old ideas of golfing, fishing and grandchildren are no longer fulfilling. Take time now to plan your new life and career.

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Is your relationship ready for retirement?

Second Time Around – Reinventing your Retirement Marriage offers practical advice, love-enriching exercises plus other learning tools you and your partner can use to make your retirement relationship richer than ever before. The easy to use workbook will help you create more intimacy in your relationship and fill your life with more of what you desire-together. Show appreciation and move to a higher level of self expression and partnership intimacy. It’s all possible.

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Or order our unique retirement gift!

All three items attractively packaged in a reusable snap case, complete with pen and marker and a congratulations card personally signed by Hugh and Joanne Wiley, the authors.
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