Inspirational Age Quotes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Birthday, Positive

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Lonely, Clever

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

"The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

"How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Birthday, Time, Years

Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Birthday, Health, Medicine

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Muhammad Ali

Birthday, Uplifting, Greatness

Twitter post from May 16, 2009

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

Life, Birthday, Leadership

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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

Beauty, Real, Elderly

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

Birthday, Children, Mean

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

Bill Vaughan

Funny, Witty, Elderly

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

"A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Marie Dressler

Birthday, Wisdom, Age

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grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

Robert Browning

Love, Birthday, Anniversary

"Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Ullman

Birthday, Confidence, Self

"The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

Inspirational, Men, Old Things

Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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