Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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.

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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

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

Child, Lydia M.

20.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

21.

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.

22.

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

Wordsworth, William

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

25.

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

Wharton, Edith

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

28.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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

33.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

34.

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

Beckett, Samuel

35.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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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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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 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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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

41.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

45.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Day, Doris

47.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

48.

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

49.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William