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

Becker, May L.

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

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Kuhn, Maggie

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Palmer, Arnold

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Richards, Keith

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Rahel

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie