The Retirement Quotes Café

A Comprehensive Collection of Retirement Quotes, Retirement Jokes, Retirement Speeches, Retirement Letters, Retirement Gifts, and Retirement Poems
Selections by Ernie J. Zelinski
Author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
 

 

Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings

Time Management Tips for Your Retirement Years

 

 

It's amazing how long it takes to complete something you are not working on.
— Unknown wise person

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
— Douglas Hofstadter

THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE: The first 80 percent of the project takes 80 percent of the time and the last 20 percent of the project takes another 80 percent of the time.
— Graffiti

Choose one of these three ways to handle a task fast:
1: Do it yourself.
2: Hire an expert to handle it for you.
3: Decide that it isn't worth doing and strike it off your to-do
list.
— from 1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement

If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging.
— Roy W. Walters

Never do today what you can do as well tomorrow; because something
may occur to make you regret your premature action.
— Aaron Burr

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
— Sydney J.Harris

you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
— John Gage

Doing a thing well, particularly in your retirement years, is often

a waste of time.
— from 1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement

When you are doing something difficult, tedious, or extremely time-consuming, ask yourself what would happen if you didn't do it. If the answer is nothing, or next to nothing, stop doing it.
— from 1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement

Time Management Tips to Outwit Your Boss: Don't overdo things that shouldn't be done in the first place.
— Unknown wise person

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare?
— W. H. DAVIES

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
— Henry David Thoreau

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
— Cicero

Managing your time is easy. Don't try to manage it. Just live your life.
— Unknown wise person


It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to
do.
— Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
— Eddie Cantor

Time and Money: You have the money but can you buy some time.
— from The Money Cafe

 

 

 

 

 

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Always take an emergency leisurely.
— Chinese proverb

Leisure [particularly in retirement] is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
— William Russell

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose.
That is what leisure means.
— Alan Bennett

Few Americans even know what "leisure" really means, and commonly confuse it with recreation or time off from work, even if that time is spent doing chores.
— Shannon Mullen

Remember that nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
— Arthur Balfour

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem busily employed on things that are already done.
John Kennett Galbraith

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the best product of civilization.
— Bertrand Russell

Time management is a myth.
— Susan Ward

Leisure may prove to be a curse rather than a blessing, unless education teaches a flippant world leisure is not a synonym for entertainment.
— William J. Bogan

To have no aptitude for leisure is to have no aptitude for life.
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
— Jean-Paul Sartre

You don't have to watch one minute of TV when you retire — and perhaps you shouldn’t!
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