Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Meyers, Ernest

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ball, Lucille

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

10.

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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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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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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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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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.

17.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

18.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hazlitt, William

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Palmer, R.

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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

40.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

41.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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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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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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