Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

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

Pepper, Claude D.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

10.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

11.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Burroughs, John

13.

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

14.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

15.

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.

16.

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.

17.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

18.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

19.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Hope, Bob

23.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

24.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

26.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, 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

28.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

30.

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

31.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

32.

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

Hope, Bob

33.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

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

35.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

36.

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

37.

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

Palmer, R.

38.

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

Carter, Lillian

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

Kanin, Garson

40.

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

41.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

42.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

43.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

44.

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

Palmer, Arnold

45.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward