Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Meyers, Ernest

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

10.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

11.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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

18.

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

Burns, George

20.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

21.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gabriel, Peter

28.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young, Edward

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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

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

Becker, May L.

40.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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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

44.

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.

45.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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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