Inspirational Happy birthday quotes
What is the best gift to give your loved ones for their birthday? A happy birthday quote or message, full of love, joy and hope, that is sure to put a smile on that person’s face.
Below you will find a collection of motivational, inspirational and encouraging happy birthday quotes.
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain
“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
“A birth date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.” Amit Kalantri
“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” Bob Hope
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” Pope John XXIII
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” Voltaire
“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” Lucille Ball
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” Charles Schulz
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” Woody Allen
“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” Decimus Magnus Ausonius
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”Arthur Schopenhauer
“Your birthday is my pleasure. You are my sweetest treasure.” Danny Demeersseman
“Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life.” Wilfred Peterson
“Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.” J. P. Sears
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“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.” Brad Garrett
“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
“Don’t regret another birthday, the good news is that you are alive and can celebrate it.” Catherine Pulsifer
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” Satchel Paige
“And once again we wish you All joyous things and more A day that’s filled with happiness And memories to store.” Janet Horne
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” A. A. Milne
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” William Shakespeare
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day” Emily Dickinson
“It’s the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ” Aristotle
“From our birthday, until we die, / Is but the winking of an eye.” William Butler Yeats
“To me a birthday means celebrating the presence of an individual in our lives.” Meena Bajaj
“A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.” Abhishek Bachchan
“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” Bernard Baruch
“Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it! ” Nicky Gumbel
“A birthday is the anniversary of your birth. It’s the time most of us reflect over the past year and what we hope for in the coming year.” Claudia T Hudson
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” Oprah Winfrey
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” George Burns
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” William Shakespeare
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony .” Mahatma Gandhi
“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.” Thomas Edison
“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! ” Audrey Hepburn
“Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness.” Debasish Mridha
“Nice to be here? At my age, it’s nice to be anywhere.” George Burns
“Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we’ve grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it’s not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing. ” Jerry Seinfeld
“The great thing about getting older is you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” Madeleine L’Engle
“We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. ” Lauren Hutton
“At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.” Benjamin Franklin
“You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.” John P. Grier
“Your age isn’t you. Use today to feel your best, celebrate and be your very happiest.” M. Rivers
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.” Jonathan Swift
“The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” Henry Ford
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.” Touaxia Vang
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” Cherokee Expression
“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
“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” Titus Maccius Plautus
“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.” Janet Evanovich
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.” Robert Browning
“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.” Lucy Larcom
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” Mark Twain
“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.” Brigitte Bardot
“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.” Sam Hagar
“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.” Plato
“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” Tom Stoppard
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” Robert Frost
“Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.” Natasha Bedingfield
“You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.” Ethel Barrymore
