Top 40 Birthday Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Sammy Hagar

2. “Youth has no age.”

— Pablo Picasso

3. “May you stay Forever Young.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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5. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mark Twain

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

— John Lennon

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8. “Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”

— Jack Kerouac

9. “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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10. “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”

— Pope John XXIII

11. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Chili Davis

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Coco Chanel

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

— Dr. Seuss

16. “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

19. “Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”

— Lucy Larcom

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20. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

— Mother Teresa

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21. “Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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24. “Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.”

— Will Rogers

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25. “May you live every day of your life.”

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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27. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

— Mark Twain

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28. “Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”

— William Wordsworth

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Betty Friedan

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31. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

— William Shakespeare

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32. “If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”

— Bruce Barton

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33. “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

— Samuel Ullman

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34. “I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.”

— Joseph Campbell

35. “In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

— Paul McCartney

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36. “At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”

— George Orwell

37. “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”

— Voltaire

38. “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

— John Burroughs

39. “The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

40. “Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

— Margaret Fuller