These Birthday quotes will inspire you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging birthday quotes, birthday sayings, and birthday proverbs.
Inspirational Birthday Quotes
- “May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday” ~ Rob Jackson
- “We’re sending you best wishes And hope your day goes well And that you’ll find some memories
With stories you can tell Of how you had a marvelous time And those around you too With fun and lots of laughter
And all this just for you.. Have a Very Happy Birthday” ~ Janet Horne - “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ~ John Lennon , Happy birthday quotes for friends
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“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ~ Mark Twain
- “There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” ~ William Barclay
- “Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, every day Be truly happy for you.” ~ Margaret Brown
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“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” ~ Satchel Paige
- “Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.” ~ Natasha Bedingfield
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West
- “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.” ~ Chili Davis , Birthday quotes growing old
- “Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.” ~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” ~ Lucille Ball
- “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
- “The golden age is before us, not behind us.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Sending you smiles for every moment of your special day…Have a wonderful time and a very happy birthday!” ~ Anonymous
- “The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday.” ~ Paris Hilton
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“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” ~ Voltaire
- “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ~ Franz Kafka
- “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” ~ Robert Frost
- “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“It takes a long time to become young.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “You’re birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar….. Yung No Mo” ~ Dana Rosemary Scallon
- “May you live all the days of your life.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “Wishing you a day filled with happiness and a year filled with joy. Happy birthday!”
- “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” ~ Bob Hope
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“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” ~ John Barrymore
- “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
- “Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.” ~ Brigitte Bardot
- “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” ~ Mark Twain
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“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” ~ George Harrison
- “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
- “And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!” ~ Audrey Hepburn
- “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
- “And once again we wish you All joyous things and more A day that’s filled with happiness And memories to store.” ~ Janet Horne
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” ~ George Burns
- “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton
- “The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.” ~ Richard Bach
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“Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.” ~ Lucy Larcom
- “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
- “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.'” ~ Steven Wright
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“Today you are you! That is truer than true!” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” ~ Ernest Myers
- “May you stay Forever Young” ~ Bob Dylan , Birthday quotes wishes
- “So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears” ~ Thomas Hood
- “In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” ~ Paul McCartney
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“No wise man ever wished to be younger.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” ~ Douglas Pagels
- “Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
- “Those whom the gods love grow young.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” ~ Tom Wilson
Summary: A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person, or figuratively of an institution. Birthdays of people are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with birthday gifts, birthday cards, a birthday party, or a rite of passage.