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

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Burns, George

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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.

Browning, Robert

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Paul, Jean

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude 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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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 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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Hope, Bob

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hoagland, Edward

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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