Retirement is Not the End of the Road — 54 Inspirational Quotes on Retirement

You’ve worked hard to retire, but now that you’re on the cusp of it, it’s common to feel lost or without a sense of purpose. There are ways to help you prepare-like reading the top retirement planning books or identifying if you need help with finances -though it can still feel overwhelming.

To help you ease into retirement, we’ve compiled a list of 54 quotes on retirement and aging. Remember, retirement is not the end of the road, it’s a new beginning.

1. “Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.” — David Bowie
2. “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” — Betty Friedan
3. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
4. “Instead of saving for someone else’s college education, I’m currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.” — Jen Kirkman
5. “I have never liked working. To me, a job is an invasion of privacy.” — Unknown
6. “The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off” — Abe Lemons
7. “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
8. “Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.” — “Don’t act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.” — J.A. West
9. “Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.” — Clarence Darrow
10. “Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials-much to live on and much to live for.” — Unknown
11. “You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” — George Bernard Shaw
12. “We don’t grow older, we grow riper” — Pablo Picasso
13. “Planning to retire? Before you do, find your hidden passion, do the thing you have always wanted to do.” — Catherine Pulsifer
14. “You are a person I really admire, because you are a person who gets to retire.” — Unknown
15. “I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.” — Walt Mossberg
16. “Remember, what does ‘retirement’ mean? It doesn’t mean that you’re a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you’re bicycling five miles a day, that’s leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.” — Robert Fogel
17. “I’m happy in retirement.” — Greg Rusedski
18. “I found our retirement means playing golf, or I don’t know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.” — Dick Van Dyke
19. “The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.” — unknown
20. “You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream” — CS Lewis
21. “Don’t act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.” — JA West
22. “Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials-much to live on and much to live for.” — Unknown
23. “He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.” — Plato
24. “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” — Larry Lorenzoni
25. “Wrinkles only show where smiles have been.” — Mark Twain
26. “The more candles on my cake, the more exercise I get blowing them out.” — Donna Lynn Hope
27. “I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.” — Henri-Frederic Amiel
28. “Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.” — Penelope Cruz
29. “I know for sure that by owning who and what you are, you can step into the fullness of life.” — Oprah Winfrey
30. “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” — Satchel Paige
31. “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.” — Chili Davis
32. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
33. “Youth has no age.” — Pablo Picasso
34. “Retirement is a blank sheet of paper. It is a chance to redesign your life into something new and different.” — Patrick Foley
35. “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
36. “You have to put off being young until you retire.” — Unknown
37. “What do you call someone who’s happy on Mondays? Retired!” — Unknown
38. “Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.” — Abigail Charleson
39. “For many, retirement is a time for personal growth, which becomes the path to greater freedom.” — Robert Delamontague
40. “You’re retired-goodbye tension, hello pension!” — Unknown
41. “Retirement is not a life without purpose; it is the ongoing purpose that provides meaningfulness.” — Robert Rivers
42. “What does retirement mean now that there are so many opportunities for learning, for caring, for serving? We can redefine aging.” — Rachel Cowan
43. “To some of us, retirement gives us time to follow our dreams.” — Shirley Mitchell
44. “As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.” — Earl Nightingale
45. “The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.” — Susan Miller
46. “My formula for a treasured retirement is simple: plan, design, enjoy.” — Julia Valentine
47. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” — Fred Rogers
48. “Stay young at heart, kind in spirit, and enjoy retirement living.” — Danielle Duckery
49. “A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell ’em to get a life.” — Larry Laser
50. “Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick
51. “Retirement is when having a good time is your only job.” — Unknown
52. “I’m gonna make the rest of my life, the best of my life!” — Unknown
53. “The purpose of retirement is not simply to exist, to simply survive, but to elevate oneself in life, to have a purpose, to achieve, and to conquer new horizons.” — Dave Erhard
54. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” — Bill Waterson

If the prospect of retirement is still making you anxious, a financial advisor can help you ease into retirement with a solid knowledge foundation about your finances.

Originally published at https://www.seniorfinanceadvisor.com.