68 Inspirational Birthday Quotes for Women to Celebrate Strength and Dreams

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Today is the oldest you have been and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!"

- Nicky Gumbel

"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

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been."

- David Bowie

"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."

- Billy Mills

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it."

- Maya Angelou

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

- John Lennon

"If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

- George Meredith

"There are two great days in a person's life – the day we are born, and the day we discover why."

- William Barclay

"Celebrate your journey of life."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"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

"Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come."

- Lucy Larcom

"Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift."

- Aretha Franklin

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."

- John Mason

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

- Franz Kafka

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"You don't get older, you get better."

- Shirley Bassey

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

- Emily Dickinson

"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as your birthday present."

- Leo Buscaglia

"I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

- Virginia Woolf

"A birthday is not a day to fear. It is a day to celebrate and look forward to the coming year."

- Byron Pulsifer

"A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life."

- Amit Kalantri

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

- Voltaire

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be."

- Robert Browning

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Satchel Paige

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."

- Mark Twain

"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 proverb

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

- George Santayana

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

- Brigitte Bardot

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."

- Ausonius

"It takes a long time to grow young."

- Pablo Picasso

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art."

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."

- English Proverb

"Youth has no age."

- Pablo Picasso

"We are always the same age inside."

- Gertrude Stein

"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."

- Carl Rogers

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

- William Shakespeare

"We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."

- Bernard Baruch

"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."

- Plautus

"They say it's your birthday / We're gonna have a good time / I'm glad it's your birthday / Happy birthday to you."

- The Beatles

"The way I see it, you should live every day like it's your birthday."

- Paris Hilton

"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."

- Audrey Hepburn

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Tom Wilson

"To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

- Bernard Baruch

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."

- George Harrison

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana."

- Betty White

"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."

- Ogden Nash

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened."

- Cora Harvey Armstrong

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

- Tom Stoppard

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."

- Larry Lorenzoni

"Just remember, once you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed."

- Charles Schulz

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

- Bob Hope

"As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two."

- Sir Norman Wisdom

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."

- Oscar Wilde