Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burns, George

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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)

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

Meyers, Ernest

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Cope, Wendy

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Young, Edward

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.