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Celebrate your birthday with a great portion of enjoyable birthday quotes.

“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

“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” –Ann Landers

“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had, and what you’ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.” –Unknown

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” –Abraham Lincoln

“It takes a long time to grow young.” –Pablo Picasso

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” – Emily Dickinson

“One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.” –Virginia Woolf

“May you live all the days of your life.” –Jonathan Swift

“Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.” –Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.” –Caryn Leschen

“The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.” – Helen Rowland

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” –Douglas MacArthur

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” –George Bernard Shaw

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” –Bob Hope

“Middle age: The time when you’ll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.” –Robert Quillen

“Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.” –Andre Maurois

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” –Bonnie Prudden

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.” –Edith Wharton

“For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.” – Richard Needham

“The years teach much which the days never knew.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.” – John Mortimer

“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.” –Sir Winston Churchill

“Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” –Pope John XXIII

“Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.” –Joseph Addison

“You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” –James Barrie

Work Quotes

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– “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

– “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” – Al Capp

– “As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” – Irvin S. Cobb

– “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert

– “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle

– “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

– “Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

– “Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” – J. Paul Getty

– “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing

– “I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” – Richard Nelson Bolles

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso

– “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” – William Faulkner

– “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

– “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace

Art Quotes

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– “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

– “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

– “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso

– “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

– “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner

– “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

– “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler

– “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch

– “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci

– “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita

– “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell

– “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann

– “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso

– “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse

– “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault

– “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

– “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

– “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

– “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

– “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand

– “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker

– “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde

– “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

– “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore

– “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide

– “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds

– “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker

Long Life Quotes

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. – Robert Browning

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. – Abraham Lincoln

It takes a long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

Life well spent is long. – Leonardo da Vinci

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. – Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first. – Bill Cosby

Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise – one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor. – C. A. Dykstra

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. – Groucho Marx

May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – Satchel Paige

Success Quotes

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In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. – Donald Trump

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. – Charles Schwab

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockfeller

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. – John D. Rockfeller

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. – John D. Rockfeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character. – John D. Rockfeller

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. – Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. – Henry Ford

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. – Henry Ford

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley

Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. – David Frost

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. – Dale Carnegie

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. – W. C. Fields

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. – Ross Perot

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. – Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. – Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. – Dale Carnegie

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. – Sam Ewing

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching. – Tennessee Williams

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. – Kevin Spacey

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. – Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.  – Henry Ford

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is. – Donald Trump

Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing. – Donald Trump

If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed. – Juliana Hatfield

Computers Quotes

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– “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” – Emo Philips

– “Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.” – Larry Ellison

– “Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” – Edsger Dijkstra

– “Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.” – Louis Gerstner

– “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picasso

– “Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.” – Andy Rooney

– “Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.” – Nicholas Negroponte

– “Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” – Clifford Stoll

– “Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.” – Doug Larson

– “I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.” –
Dave Barry

– “I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” – Isaac Asimov

– “I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” – Stephen Hawking

– “I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” – Bill Gates

– “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” – Steve Wozniak

– “Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” – Isaac Asimov

– “People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.” – Adam Osborne

– “Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.” – Ray Kurzweil

– “The computer is a moron.” – Peter Drucker

– “The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.” – Douglas Engelbart

– “The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.” – Ted Nelson

Imagination Quotes

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– “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

– “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden

– “Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.” – Joseph Addison

– “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

– “I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” – Peter Nivio Zarlenga

– “I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” – Duane Michals

– “I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

– “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Theodor Geisel

– “I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” – Calvin Trillin

– “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso

– “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

– “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton

– “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil

– “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led – “Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” – L. Frank Baum

– “Imagination rules the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

– “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan

– “It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” – Paul Gauguin

– “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll

– “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey