| "A retired husband is often a wife's full time job"- | | | | 3. Choose 1-3 funny retirement quotes or other |
| Ella Harris. | | | | quotes about retirement to incorporate into your |
| Just like giving a toast at a wedding or other | | | | speech. Avoid the temptation to go overboard; |
| special event, a retirement speech gives the | | | | it's your speech. Also, avoid quoting the same |
| opportunity to convey best wishes to a retiree, | | | | person twice. |
| or for the retiree to convey their gratitude to the | | | | 4. Avoid generic retirement speech quotes. When |
| organization and people that comprise it. When | | | | searching for ‘retirement quotes' online, you |
| gathering ideas for a retirement speech, quotes | | | | are likely to discover a list of unrelated options. |
| can serve as inspiration for the concepts that you | | | | Instead, focus your search on specific concepts |
| are seeking to convey, or to enhance your overall | | | | and ideas. For example, for someone who loves |
| message. | | | | their job and will continue to practice it after |
| Tips for incorporating quotes into your retirement | | | | retirement, this quote could capture the message, |
| speech: | | | | "I can't retire from music any more than I can |
| 1. Quotes should support the underlying theme or | | | | retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the |
| concept of your speech; they should not be the | | | | music from me surgically- like you were taking |
| primary focus of your message. For example, if | | | | out my appendix."- Ray Charles |
| you are discussing the retirees' continual high | | | | 5. Don't force a quote into your speech because |
| standard of quality in her work you could use a | | | | it's your favourite. Retirement quotes need a |
| quote like "Quality is not an act, it's a habit."- | | | | reason to be there. |
| Aristotle. Or, "Quality is not an accident; it is | | | | 6. Always attribute the quote to the original |
| always the result of intelligent effort."- John | | | | author. For example, "In the words of Winston |
| Ruskin. Or, "Quality means doing it right when no | | | | Churchill...". |
| one else is looking."- Henry Ford | | | | By following the above tips for incorporating |
| 2. Search for quotes that can support your | | | | quotes into your retirement speech, you are sure |
| speech; don't build your speech around a quote. | | | | to enhance the message developed. |