Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Updike, John

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Marx, Groucho

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Paul, Jean

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Burroughs, John

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

43.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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.