Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Astaire, Fred

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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.

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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.

12.

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

Palmer, R.

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

14.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Greier, John

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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.