Inspirational Quotes on Age

“You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?”

“She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.”

“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

“When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.”

“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?”

“Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”

“Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.”

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.”

“When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.”

“Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.”

“History maketh a young man to be old, without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.”

“It is often said that we live in a youth culture. It's a lie. We live in an old culture. We idolize youth because we are old. We are tired and bored. Ancient cultures respected the old because those cultures were young. They were not bored.”

“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”

“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”

“Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!”

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”