Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

- Meir, Golda

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Franklin, Benjamin

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

10.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

17.

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

18.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

21.

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

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

28.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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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

32.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

33.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

34.

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

35.

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

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

43.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

45.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

46.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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.