50 Inspiring Retirement Wishes to Celebrate New Beginnings
Retirement caps a career and opens the door to long-anticipated plans and dreams. Your happy retirement wishes in a retirement card, email, or text are a pat on the back and a standing ovation. Touching retirement wishes are even a hearty toast celebrating both the accomplishment and expectations that retirement represents.
- Tailor your best wishes to the retiree as well as your level of relationship or appropriateness, given your employment positions. If in doubt, traditional is always tasteful.
- If you know the person well enough, a nod to a favorite color, pet, or hobby bumps up the personal vibe of your greeting.
- A line of congratulations from you takes only a minute to add and makes your message memorable.
Before this retiree gets busy with golf, gardening, or grandchildren, celebrate their life accomplishments and the rewards that follow. One more voice does more than raise the volume. It warms the heart. Add yours.
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Heartfelt Retirement Wishes
There aren’t many goals that take decades to achieve. Retirement celebrates perseverance and determination and anticipates new projects, new activities, new goals. Your card, email, or text will add to the happy of “Happy Retirement!” These retirement wishes will pair beautifully with a farewell party.
- Enjoy your retirement! Now the fun begins! All the best to you, Ed!
- Retirement congratulations! It’s time to follow dreams long set aside and enjoy the rewards of work done well. Wishing you the best, Martin!
- Best wishes as you retire, Susan. You’re such a gifted, creative person, your retirement won’t be dull for a minute! Congratulations!
- Work won’t be the same without your sweet smile. Yet we all know how hard you’ve worked for this. Enjoy your retirement, Erin!
- Sincere Congratulations! Your success has been fueled by your intelligence and energy, and you’ve earned our greatest respect. Best wishes in your retirement, Robin!
- Happy Retirement! Enough with your daily job. Now it’s time for your life’s work! Congratulations, Tom!
- Happy Retirement, Terry! Who knows what new adventures lie ahead? Here’s to happy endings for them all!
- Congratulations! Enjoy your retirement, Bob! All the best to you always.
- Sharon, your leadership skills have driven our success. Although we’ll miss you, we wish you all the best as you retire. Congratulations!
Funny Retirement Messages
Most people write serious retirement wishes. Although if you know the retiree well, you can sneak some humor in. Try including these silly messages if you want the retiree to laugh.
- Woo hoo! Kick up your heels and enjoy your retirement, Alex!
- Happy Retirement, Steve! Now the only meetings you need to worry about missing are your fishing excursions. May all your hopes and plans come true!
- Congratulations! You got your life back! Enjoy every minute, Jim!
- Say goodbye to that pesky alarm clock, Joe! Enjoy each day of retirement to the fullest! Buckle up for an epic retirement party.
- You’re free as a bird! You’ve earned your wings! Enjoy your retirement, Mary!
- Finish Line! Here’s to your success and new adventures! Congratulations on your retirement, Sharon!
- Goodbye tension, hello pension! Congratulations, Mary, on your well-deserved retirement!
- Now every day can feel like the best Saturday yet! Happy Retirement, Carey!
- Happy Retirement! Think you can sneak me out of here, too? Kick back and enjoy! You’ve earned it. Wishing you luck in all that you do, Sam.
Short and Simple Retirement Wishes
Sometimes, it’s hard to come up with thoughtful retirement wishes when you don’t know the retiree well. Still, this shouldn’t stop you from sending them some good energy. Here are some short and sweet retirement wishes that will make the retiree smile.
- Retirement ahead! Looks like friendly seas from here on out, Charles! Enjoy the adventure!
- Well Done. How satisfying to retire with so many successes to remember! Congratulations, Barb!
- Congrats! Enjoy your retirement, Joy! You’ve made a difference here.
- Happy Retirement Day! Enjoy every day of your retirement, Carol!
- Congratulations! It’s a very good year to retire, Pat!
- All the best to you, Amy, as you retire. “The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.” (Deepika Padukone) Enjoy the harvest of your many successes!
- Well Done. Savor and enjoy this worthy goal accomplished! Happy Retirement, Lynn!
Inspirational Quotes for Retirement Wishes
It’s okay to consult the wordsmiths of the world when our own attempts are falling flat or we’re looking for just the right expression for a special occasion. Retirement is one of life’s biggest milestones, and one of our twenty-five collected quotes will add a touch of humor, wisdom, or affirmation to your card, email, or text. Copy. Paste. Win.
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.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Retirement is a blank sheet of paper. It is a chance to redesign your life into something new and different.
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Retirement’s the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up…
The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
To some of us, retirement gives us time to follow our dreams.
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.
The joy of retirement comes in those everyday pursuits that embrace the joy of life…
Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
It’s time to celebrate all the hard work that led to this joyful occasion.
You might be on the back nine of life, but it’s good to finish strong.
You might retire from a job, but never retire from making contributions. Indeed, life is about contribution, not accumulation.
Retire from work, but not from life.
Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to great places. You’re off and away!
Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials – much to live on and much to live for.
…to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
