Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

- Loren, Sophia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

To grow old is to grow common. 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

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Steele, Sir Richard

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

10.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Greier, John

12.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

13.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

18.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

19.

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

20.

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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Burke, Billie

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Gabriel, Peter

28.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

29.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

30.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

31.

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

Powell, Anthony

32.

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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Byron, Lord

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

42.

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

43.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

44.

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

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.