Datasets:

leonweber

/

teaching_motivational_quotes

like 5

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

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

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.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

We are always the same age inside.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.;Martha Graham;age 270;I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.;George W. Bush;age 271;In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.;Henry Miller;age 272;A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.;Frank Lloyd Wright;age 273;There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.;Samuel Johnson;age 274;Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.;Michel de Montaigne;age 275;I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.;Richard Dawkins;age 276;Love has no age, no limit and no death.;John Galsworthy;age 277;What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.;W. Somerset Maugham;age 278;I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.;Noel Coward;age 279;In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.;Will Durant;age 280;And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.;Elton John;age 281;My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.;Sara Blakely;age 282;What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.;Lord Byron;age 283;Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.;Washington Irving;age 284;A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.;Washington Irving;age 285;Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.;Alanis Morissette;age 286;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;age 287;An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.;Andre Maurois;age 288;What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.;Bono;age 289;I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.;Carl Sandburg;age 290;Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.;George Burns;age 291;Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.;F. Scott Fitzgerald;age 292;Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.;Walter Scott;age 293;Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.;Reinhold Niebuhr;age 294;The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.;William Osler;age 295;I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.;John Henrik Clarke;age 296;In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.;Herman Cain;age 297;No lie ever reaches old age.;Sophocles;age 298;I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.;Whitney Houston;age 299;This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.;Stendhal;age 300;If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.;Michel Foucault;age 301;But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.;William Wordsworth;age 302;Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.;Gore Vidal;age 303;The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.;Cindy Crawford;age 304;The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.;John W. Gardner;age 305;It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.;Virginia Woolf;age 306;Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.;W. Somerset Maugham;age 307;A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

At my age flowers scare me.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Old age is the verdict of life.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.

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

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

I don't care about age very much.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.