Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Aging Quotes
AgingFulfillmentPerspectiveTime Management Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
AgingHumorMemory They have a new division where you have to be at least 80 years old. You play three days for a million dollars, one hole a day, and if you can remember what you shot, you win!
AcceptanceAgingHealth ChallengesResilienceWisdom When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.
AgingHuman NatureLife StagesPhilosophySelf-Discovery At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Ageing GracefullyAgingAppearanceSelf-AcceptanceSelf-Perception Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
AgingDeathLife PerspectiveMortalityTime My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
AgingAudienceMusicPerformancePersonal Growth I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.
AgingLife StagesPurposeSignificance A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
AgingFrailtySuffering How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
AcceptanceAgingEmbracing Change I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all.
AgingGrowthHopeSelf-Improvement I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
AgingMindsetPlayingYouth We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
AgingLife LessonsMortality All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
AgingHealthHope Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
AgingBeautyBehaviorJusticeTruth A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
AgingHappinessMiddle AgePassionPerspective Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
AgingForgivenessLovePersonal Growth As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
AgingAppearanceConfidenceIndividualitySelf-Expression I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.
AgingContinuityLife S Unpredictability Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
AgingEmotionFearSelf ReflectionWonder How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
AgingCareer LongevityHumorMusicSelf-Expression I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!
AgingJourney of LifeReflectionSelf-DiscoveryUnexpected Realizations Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
AgingChoiceFaithGrace When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
AcceptanceAgingRestRetirement Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
AgingAppearanceSelf-Perception People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.