Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Cope, Wendy

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

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

Updike, John

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Billings, Josh

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Swift, Jonathan

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar