Age Quote by William James Download Open image “How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Aging Be young Giving Giving up Pleasant Slender Strive Young
We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings.… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength… — Socrates Copy Share Image
When you're growing up you're less happy with your body and the way you look but as I've got older it's not the number… — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn't, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It seems like everyone is stretching themselves too thin and then crashing out in their 40s. — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of old age is spiritual.… — J. Robertson McQuilkin Copy Share Image
Growing old Is Like Climbing A Mountain. We Get Tired And Breathless, But Our View Becomes More Extensive. As We Grow Older, We Realize… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
