Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Age and aging

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Swift, Jonathan

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Burns, George

19.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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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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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.