Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Chopra, Deepak

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Burns, George

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.