Birthday Quotes to Inspire, Reflect & Celebrate

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

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

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

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

“The first hundred years are the hardest.”

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”

“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

“Youth has no age.”

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

“Old age is no place for sissies.”

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”

“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.”

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”

“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”

“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

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

“I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.”

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

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

“Don’t just count your years, make your years count.”

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

“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

“Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.”

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”

“It takes a long time to become young.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“The best is yet to be.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘it will be happier’.”

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

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

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

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”

“You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.”

“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”

“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”

“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”

“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.”

“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.”

“Start every day with a smile and get it over with.”

“Eventually you reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.”

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.”

“The older I get, the better I used to be.”

“Looking fifty is great — if you’re sixty.”

“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.”

“At my age, flowers scare me.”

“I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.”

“First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.”

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

“You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.”

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.”

“The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.”

“You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’”

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”

“As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.”

“I don’t plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.”

“Happy birthday to you! Today is your day! You’re off to great places! You’re off and away!”

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

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

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“Make your life a dream, and a dream, a reality.”

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

“We should all start to live before we get too old.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”

“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.”

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.”

“Love recognizes no barriers.”

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?”

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

“A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”

“Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

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

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

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

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