Old Quotes
Quotes about Old

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

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We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Take some time in a quiet place to contemplate
the balance between being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn -
and renewing your vitality with play and celebration.
Without play, one becomes old and dry.
Without service, life becomes meaningless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Older Quotes

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

Oldest Quotes

Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau

Babe Quotes

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Never Quotes

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

I attain Inner Peace by Intending my future, and never Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

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