Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.