Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.