INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
ABOUT LIFE
AT THE RETIREMENT QUOTES CAFÉ
(A Comprehensive Collection of Inspirational Quotes and Sayings about Life Including Famous Life
Quotes That Will Help You How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free: Selections by Ernie J. Zelinski)
Inspirational Quotes to Help You
Enjoy
Each Day of Your Life
Two of the most satisfying times at work are thinking about retirement and quitting time. Once
you retire, however, you need some inspirational quotes about life and quotes about retirement to keep up your spirits, to retire early, and
to retire happy.
Below on this webpage you will find two top-10 lists of inspirational life quotes as well as
some famous inspirational quotes.
First Top-10 List of Inspirational
Quotes
about Life
#1 Quote of First Top-10 List
Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do
just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants
you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then
you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
— Alan Cohen
#2 Quote of First Top-10
List
Don't take life too seriously — you will never get out of it alive.
— Elbert Hubbard
#3 Quote of First Top-10
List
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are
not poet enough to call forth its riches.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
#4 Quote of First Top-10
List
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
— Buddha
#5 Quote of First Top-10 List of
Inspirational Quotes
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that,
what have you had?
— Henry James
#6 Quote of First Top-10
List
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your
sights and see the possibilities — always see them, for they're always there.
— Norman Vincent Peale
#7 Quote of First Top-10
List
You are never given a wish without the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
— Richard Bach
#8 Quote of First Top-10 List
of Inspirational Quotes
Keep your thoughts positive because your
thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
— Gandhi
#9 Quote of First Top-10
List
The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in
the heart.
— Helen Keller
#10 Quote of First Top-10
List
To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody
else — is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
— e. e. cummings
Second Top-Ten List of Inspirational
Quotes
about Life for
Retirement
#1 Quote of Second Top-10 List
Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways.
Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely?
Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a
new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work?
Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes.
You don't have to keep everything.
— Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
#2 Quote of Second Top-10
List
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public
eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken
with all a bad poet's bombast!
— Jean de La Bruyère
#3 Quote of Second Top-10
List
When you find yourself on the side of the majority, question
yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.
— from
Look Ma, Life's
Easy
#4 Quote of Second Top-10
List
If you aren’t living on the edge, you’re taking up too much
space.
— Unknown wise person
#5 Quote of Second Top-10 List of
Inspirational Quotations
If we had no winter, the spring
would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
— Anne Bradstreet
#6 Quote of Second Top-10
List
When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.
— Thaddesu Golas, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
#7 Quote of Second Top-10
List
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create
your own legend or not.
— Isabel Allende
#8 Quote of Second Top-10
List
Money,
achievement, fame, and success are important,
but they are bought too dearly when acquired at the cost of health.
— Unknown wise person
#9 Quote of Second Top-10
List
Before you climb over the side of the fence to where the grass appears
greener, try watering your side first!
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free
#10 Quote of Second Top-10 List
of Inspirational Quotations
Life is a game.
Happy people are the players.
Unhappy people are the spectators.
Which would you like to be?
— from Life's Secret Handbook by Ernie Zelinski
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and See:
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- Aging and Old Age
Quotes about Aging and Old Age on The Retirement Quotes Cafe: A Comprehensive Collection of Quotations about Aging, Old Age, Healthy Aging, and Aging Gracefully
- Famous Last Words
Famous Last Words by the Famous and the Not-So-Famous on Their Way to Ultimate Retirement
- Famous People Who Resisted Retirement
Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings by Famous People Who Resisted Retiring: Also Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings by Not-So-Famous People Who Also Resisted Retirement — Found on T-Shorts
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More Inspirational Quotes and Sayings about
Life
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with
life.
— Carl Jung
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
Elevating all your wants to your need list is another way to trick yourself into being broke
in retirement.
— from The Joy of Not Working:A Book for the
Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you — not because they are nice,
but because you are.
— Unknown
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually
approach 18.
— Mark Twain
May flowers always line your path
and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
— Irish Blessing
Take the attitude of a student: never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to
learn something new.
— Mandino
The purpose of retirement is not simply to exist, to simply survive, but to elevate onself in life, to
have purpose, to achieve, and to conquer.
— Dave Erhard
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain
The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about
changing how we see the one we have right now.
— Angel Kyodo Williams
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
— Ben Franklin
Insecurity will always rent the space it occupies, but confidence will own the building, and
any other room it steps in.
— Unknown
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard
them.
— Rudyard Kipling
Also See: Quotes about Retiring
Happy
Famous Inspirational Quotes about
Life
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
— Oscar Wilde
I will do today what others won't, so I will have tomorrow
what other's don't!
— John Addison
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made
of.
— Benjamin Franklin
The measure of
your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
— Dr. Wayne Dyer
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want; and after that to joy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since
I have seen anyone sleep in church — and that is a sad situation.
— Norman Vincent Peale
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world
to live more amply, with greater vision, and with finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich
the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
— Woodrow Wilson
Funny Inspirational Quotes about
Life
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
— Joseph Heller
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when
you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
— Michael Pritchard
To some degree, most people worry about retirement. Many worry about not having enough
money. Others worry about having to leave the comfort and community provided by the workplace. Still others
worry about what they are going to do with their time. Of course, excessive worry about retirement can
shorten your life expectancy so much that you need not be concerned about it.
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
There was a very cautious man
Who never laughed or played
He never risked — he never tried
He never sang or prayed
And when one day he passed away
His Insurance was denied
For since he never really lived
They claim he never died.
— Anon (from the book Good Debt, Bad Debt)
No doubt God put me on Earth to make a big difference by doing many remarkable things for
humanity. I have fallen so far behind schedule, however, that I will never retire. In fact, I will never die
at the rate I am going.
— Dave Erhard
Be happy to retire — because you are a
long time dead!
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie Zelinski
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