Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Wilde, Oscar

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

10.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

12.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

13.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

14.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

15.

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

16.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

17.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

18.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

19.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

20.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

21.

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

22.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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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

24.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

25.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

26.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

28.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

29.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

33.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

34.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

36.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

39.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

42.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

44.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

46.

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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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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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

49.

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

Paul, Jean

50.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert