Motivational Quotes

Age

Aging is not'lost youth'but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

- Betty Friedan

Best Quotes about Age

Aging is not'lost youth'but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

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

Karl von Bonstetten

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

John Scalzi

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...

Sharon Olds

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Saki

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley

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No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Lynn Johnston

11.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George Burns

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren

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People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Age isàwisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Miriam Makeba

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Doris Lessing

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There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

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There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau

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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

George Burns

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It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston

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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

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I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Louise Nevelson

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It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

gadgetgirl

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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

31.

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?

Tish Grier

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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

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You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

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The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the'Dilbert guy.'Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be'that stabbin'Dilbert guy.'

Scott Adams

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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

40.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Pablo Casals

41.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

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

Lucille Ball

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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

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I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.