Inspiring Quotes about Age

32 quotations about age and youthfulness!

Quotes about Age: Attitude

~ Young. Old. Just words.
George Burns (1896-1996) U.S. comedian, actor, writer

~ Live your life and forget your age.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) U.S. Protestant preacher, self-help author

~ The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel (1890-1975) U.S. professional baseball player and manager

~ Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.
Helen Hayes (1900-1993) U.S. actress whose career spanned almost 70 years

~ Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born 1962) African-American Olympian athlete

~ I never feel age… If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) Russian-American sculptor

~ As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less.
Julie Andrews (born 1935) English film-and-stage actress, singer

~ Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) U.S. humanitarian, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

~ You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) U.S. humanitarian, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

~ The final years of life are decisive. Unsurpassed happiness belongs to those who have overcome every difficulty, who can savour a genuine sense of fulfillment, and say, "Yes, I lived a good life."
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

Quotes about Age: Beauty

~ As we grow old the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. essayist, philosopher, poet, Transcendentalist

~ People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Quotes about Age: Health

~ Had I known I'd live this long, I would've taken better care of myself.
Billy Martin (1928-1989) U.S. professional baseball player, manager

~ We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Deepak Chopra M.D. (born 1947) Indian-born U.S.-based physician, metaphysican, author

Quotes about Age: Learning

~ The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.
Rosalyn S. Yalow (born 1921) U.S. medical physicist, the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1977

~ You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.
Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American actor, martial artist, filmmaker

Quotes about Age: Love

~ Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau (born 1928) French actress, singer, screenwriter, director

Quotes about Age: Maturity

~ I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

~ Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. … It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren (born 1918) pen name of Pauline Phillips, Dear Abby advice columnist

~ The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.
Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American actor, martial artist, filmmaker

~ There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed.
Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American actor, martial artist, filmmaker

Quotes about Age: Regrets

~ Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Source unknown

~ Don't grow old saying, "I wish I had. I should have. Why didn't I?"
M. Shields (details unknown)

Quotes about Age: Retirement

~ Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) U.S. Baptist minister

~ There may be a retirement age at work, but there is no retirement age in life.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

Quote about Age: Sex

~ Fifty marks the beginning of the best years of our lives, including the best sex of our lives.
Christiane Northrup, contemporary U.S. physician, speaker, author

Quotes about Age: Youth

~ The life of one who continues to challenge to the end remains youthful, ageless, and victorious.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

~ Try to give genuine smiles to all-—family, friends, strangers alike. Half the secret of youthfulness lies in that.
Paramhansa Yogananda (1893-1952) Indian yogi, meditation guru

~ The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl Buck (1892-1973) U.S. humanitarian, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

~ Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

~ Youthfulness originates from life force. There are young people who look surprisingly old, and there are elderly people who, no matter how the years pass, always sparkle with the glow of youth, an inner vitality.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

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