Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

11.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

12.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

13.

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.

14.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

17.

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

Woolf, Virginia

18.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

20.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

21.

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

Ullman, Samuel

22.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

23.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

24.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

25.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

26.

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

Hoagland, Edward

27.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

29.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

30.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

Paul, Jean

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

35.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Turner, Tina

41.

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

42.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

44.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

45.

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

46.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy