Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

Gabriel, Peter

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.

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

Greier, John

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Becker, May L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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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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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

31.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb

33.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

34.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Burroughs, John

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage