Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Age Quotes

Acceptance Age Humor Perspective Time I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Age Character Cynicism Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright and critic

Age Attitude Mind Over Matter Perception Perspective Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

American writer and humorist

Age Failure Self Worth Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Ernest Hemingway

Age Danger Indifference Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright and critic

Action Age Individuality Relativity Virtue Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Plato

Age Hesitation Risk Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway

Age Idolatry Service Talents Utility Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Friedrich Schiller

Poet and playwright

Age Attitude Mindset Perception Self-Identity Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Muhammad Ali

Age Humor Perception Self-awareness Surprise At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Age Loneliness Perseverance Reflection Restlessness I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

Neil Young

Musician and songwriter

Age Perseverance Persistence I believe age should not stop you from keeping on.

Angela Lansbury

American-British-Irish actress and singer

Age Gender Perception Society A woman has the age she deserves.

Coco Chanel

Fashion Designer

Age Experience Optimism Perception Wisdom The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Mark Twain

American writer and humorist

Age Medicines are only fit for old people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Former Emperor of the French

Age Forward Movement Perseverance I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.

Angela Lansbury

American-British-Irish actress and singer

Age Perception Relationship A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

Groucho Marx

American comedian and actor