Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wharton, Edith

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Nicklaus, Jack

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Johnson

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Fonda, Jane

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 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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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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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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

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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

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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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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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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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

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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

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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