Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Steele, Sir Richard

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Proverb

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Meyers, Ernest

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Burke, Billie

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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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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian