Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Meyers, Ernest

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Einstein, Albert

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Gabriel, Peter

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Wharton, Edith

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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.

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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Carter, Lillian

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Becker, May L.

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

Burroughs, John

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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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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