Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Woolf, Virginia

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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

Palmer, R.

11.

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

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

Child, Lydia M.

15.

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

Updike, John

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Twain, Mark

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Burke, Billie

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin