Positive Aging Quotes

Aging quotes are all inspirational, positive words of wisdom on getting older.
Many people worry about getting older and dread the oncoming turn of each decade. But, as with everything in life, our attitude makes all the difference. By keeping a positive attitude to life you'll be happier and more able to cope with whatever may come our way.

Aeschylus 525BC - 456BC

It is always the season
for the old to learn.

Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 - 1888

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits,
he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 - 1907

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent... that is to triumph over old age.

Muhammad Ali 1942 Aging Quotes

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

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty, has wasted thirty years of his life.

Elizabeth Arden 1884 - 1966

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly, you're as old as you feel.

May L. Becker

We grow neither better or worse as we get old...
but more like ourselves.

Bible

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Robert Brault

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

Les Brown 1945

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.

Robert Browning 1812 - 1889

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

Martin Buber 1878 - 1965

To be old is a glorious thing
when one has not unlearned what it means to begin.

Marty Bucella

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift anyday.

George Burns 1896 - 1996

You can't help getting older,
but you don't have to get old.

John Burroughs 1837 - 1921

How beautifully leaves grow old.
How full of light and colour are their last days.

Martin Buxbaum 1912 - 1991

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty...
They merely move it from their face into their hearts.

George William Curtis 1824 - 1892

Age is a matter of feeling,
not of years.

Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886

We turn not older with years,
but newer every day.

Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881

I have lived long enough to know that
the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

John Donne 1572 - 1631

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Marie Dressler 1868 - 1934

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

Will Durant 1885 - 1982

The love we have in our youth is superficial
compared to the love an old man has for his wife.

Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955 Aging Quotes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

The years teach us much
the days never knew.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 - 1944

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879 - 1958

Those who love deeply never grow old,
they may die of old age, but they die young.

Henry Ford 1863 - 1947

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

James A. Garfield 1831 - 1881

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows,
let them not be written upon the heart.
The spirit should never grow old.

David Grayson

The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life.
"Why" I answered without a thought, "NOW."

Iris Hellelden

You will never be old with a twinkle in your eye
with the springtime in your heart as you watch the winter fly.
You will never be old while you have a smile to share
while you wonder at mankind and you find the time to care.
While there's magic in your world and a special dream to hold
while you still can laugh at life you will never be old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 - 1894 Aging Quotes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

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

We do not quit playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we quit playing.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885

Forty is the old age of youth...
Fifty the youth of old age.

Aldous Huxley  1894 - 1963

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

Susan Jeffers Aging Quotes

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call.
They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.

We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches...
We can gather them every day of our lives.

Douglas Jerrold 1803 - 1857

How beautiful can time with goodness
make and old man look.

Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824

The evening of a well spent youth
brings it's lamps with it.

Dalai Lama 1935 Aging Quotes

Live a good, honourable life.
Then when you get older and look back,
you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

Madeline L'Engle 1918 - 2007

The great thing about getting older is
that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882

Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Sophia Loren 1934

There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Douglas MacArthur

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.

W. Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965

When you have loved as she has loved,
you grow old beautifully.

Anais Nin 1903 - 1977

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Sara Paddison

Many people can't stand the thought of aging, but it's the crystallized thought patterns and inflexible mind-sets that age people before their time.  You can break through and challenge your crystallized patterns and mind-sets.  That is what evolution and the expansion of love are really about.

Norman Vincent Peale 1898 - 1993

Live your life
and forget your age.

Ralph Perry  1876 - 1957

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973

Age only matters when one is aging.
Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

Plato 429BC - 347BC

The spiritual eyesight improves
as the physical eyesight declines.

Judith Regan

The key to successful aging is...
to pay as little attention to it as possible.

Jean Paul Richter 1763 - 1825   Aging Quotes

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
 the clearer we should see through it.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
but beautiful old people are works of art.

James A. Simpson   Aging Quotes

Avoid being a 'groan' up.

Cultivate your sense of humour.  On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever

Don't regret growing older, remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

Elderly people are like plants.  Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways.  I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age.  When we are young, we have the face and figure God gave us.  We did nothing to earn our good looks.  But as we get older, character becomes etched on our face.  Beautiful old people are works of art. Like a white candle in a holy place, so it the beauty of an aged face.

Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 Aging Quotes

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mae West 1893 - 1980

You're never too old to become younger.

Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 - 1959

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Proverb & Unknown Author Aging Quotes

Proverbs that are Aging Quotes

Everyone is the age of their heart.

It's never too late to learn.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

Unknown Author Aging Quotes

Age is... only a number.

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

An old man in love is like a flower in winter.

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

I'm not forty, I'm eighteen with twenty two years experience.

It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.

Live your life and forget your age.

Now you and I are older lad
We have a bond to treasure
We can look into each others eyes
With pride too great to measure

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should see through it.

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

They say that age is all in the mind.
The trick is keeping it from creeping down into the body.

To age is not a problem, but by taking on problems...
I will age.

Wrinkles are the service stripes of life.

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

You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.

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