Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

- Nicklaus, Jack

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Palmer, R.

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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

10.

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

11.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

14.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

18.

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

Updike, John

19.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

20.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

21.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

30.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

31.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

32.

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

33.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

34.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

35.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vaughan, Henry

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Growing old is not growing up.