Life Quotes

I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

~ Asap Rocky

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.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

~ Billy Graham

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

~ Patch Adams

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

~ Amy Winehouse

We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.

~ Frank Abagnale

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

~ Erik Erikson

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

~ Billy Graham

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

~ Linus Pauling

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

~ Dwight L. Moody

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

~ Johnny Ball

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

~ Freddie Prinze

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

~ Warren Buffett

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

~ Aimee Mullins

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

~ Jeff Buckley

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

~ T. S. Eliot

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

~ Olivia Munn

Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

Being healthy is something I learned from a very young age. Looking after yourself on the inside helps with your energy, makes your skin glow, and changes your whole outlook on life.

~ Phoebe Tonkin

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

~ Warren Buffett

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

~ Sydney J. Harris

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

~ George Macdonald

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

~ Jon Hamm

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.

~ Anna Wintour

If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

~ Elon Musk

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

~ Kelley Armstrong

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

~ Barbara De Angelis

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

~ Johnny Marr

Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.

~ Tom Brokaw

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

~ Muhammad Ali

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

~ Jonathan Swift

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

~ Tim O'brien

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

~ Kimberly Willis Holt

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

~ J. B. Priestley

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

~ Jean Paul

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

~ Dennis Prager

Old age is the verdict of life.

~ Amelia Barr

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

~ Muriel Spark