Motivational Quotes

Age

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

Best Quotes about Age

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

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

Carol Matthau

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Groucho Marx

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

Sharon Olds

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

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

gadgetgirl

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

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

10.

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

11.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

15.

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Roger Allen

16.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Lillian Carter

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

20.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

21.

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

22.

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

Tom Stoppard

23.

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

Anouk Aimee

24.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

26.

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

Homer

27.

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

Miriam Makeba

28.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

29.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

30.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

31.

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

Lucille Ball

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

John Scalzi

34.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

35.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

36.

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

37.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

38.

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

39.

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

Lynn Johnston

40.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.