Inspirational birthday quotes offer insight, words of encouragement, and motivation on this special day. Whether you’re the birthday star or you’re celebrating someone you love, inspiring quotes about birthdays will make this year the best one yet. Best happy birthday inspirational quotes help you wish a year filled with joy, growth, and success.
Birthday celebration is all about the wisdom, hope, and inspiration that comes with a new year of life. It isn’t just about growing a year older; it is about growing a year wiser, kinder, and more fabulous. Each birthday is a milestone, a chance to reflect on the past and set new goals for the future. Inspirational birthday quotes for self, family and friends help you celebrate this special day.
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Inspirational Happy Birthday Quotes
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius
The way I see it, you should live everyday like it’s your birthday. Paris Hilton
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. Sammy Hagar
Birthdays are a new start, a fresh beginning and a time to pursue new endeavors with new goals. Move forward with confidence and courage. You are a very special person. May today and all of your days be amazing!
I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day. Aimee Bender
Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. Lucy Larcom
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Les Brown
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Dr. Seuss
My life is better with every year of living it. Rachel Maddow
Today is the oldest you have been and the youngest you’ll ever be again. Eleanor Roosevelt
Old enough to know better but still young enough to get away with it.
You make each day special just by being yourself. I hope your birthday is as special as you are.
A wish for you on your birthday: Whatever you ask may you receive, whatever you seek may you find, whatever you wish may come true.
Don’t worry about another birthday, let the best of life has to offer, be your focus! After all none of us knows what tomorrow will bring, live for today, recognize and appreciate the years you have had! Theodore W. Higginsworth
The day you’re born is not the day You Grow, it’s the day you evolve. The revolution is up to you. Goitsemang Mvula
Go, shorty, it’s your birthday. 50 Cent
A birthdate is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life. Amit Kalantri, “Wealth of Words”
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent — that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. John Lennon
Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. Anna Magnani
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley
You don’t get older, you get better. Shirley Bassey
Don’t just count your years, make your years count. George Meredith
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Rick Warren
Inspiring Birthday Quotes for Friends and Family
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. Marilyn Monroe
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking Glass”
Birthdays come but once a year, celebrate and be of good cheer. Robert Rivers
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. Bernard Baruch
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. Muhammad Ali
Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday? Prince
Birthdays are inevitable, beautiful and very particular moments in our lives! Moments that bring precious memories back, celebrate the present times and give hope for the future. Babe Arish
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. Audrey Hepburn
They say it’s your birthday / It’s my birthday too, yeah / 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, “Birthday”
Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better. Sanhita Baruah
It takes a long time to grow young. Pablo Picasso
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Robert Browning
Each 10 years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickinson
Youth has no age. Pablo Picasso
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years. Happy birthday!
Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift. Aretha Franklin
Today is the oldest you have been and the youngest you will ever be again. Make the most of it! Nicky Gumbel
Happy birthday! I hope all your birthday wishes and dreams come true.
In other words, live vicariously, beautifully, and excitedly, discover, love, dare, and act as there is nothing to lose. Andy Hertz
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
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare
Another adventure filled year awaits you. Welcome it by celebrating your birthday with pomp and splendor. Wishing you a very happy and fun-filled birthday!
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
Do your dance, it’s your birthday. Usher
Short Inspirational Birthday Quotes
Love the giver more than the gift. Brigham Young
May the joy that you have spread in the past come back to you on this day. Wishing you a very happy birthday!
Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. Marcus Aurelius
Happy birthday! Your life is just about to pick up speed and blast off into the stratosphere. Wear a seat belt and be sure to enjoy the journey.
There are two great days in a person’s life — the day we are born and the day we discover why. William Barclay
The years teach much which the days never knew. Ralph Waldo Emerson
This birthday, I wish you abundant happiness and love. May all your dreams turn into reality and may lady luck visit your home today. Happy birthday to one of the sweetest people I’ve ever known.
You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It’s okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. Richelle E. Goodrich
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual. Ernest Hemingway
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes
May you be gifted with life’s biggest joys and never-ending bliss. After all, you yourself are a gift to earth, so you deserve the best. Happy birthday.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H. Lawrence
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. Madeleine L’Engle
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
Count not the candles…see the lights they give. Count not the years, but the life you live. Wishing you a wonderful time ahead. Happy birthday.
Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. Debasish Mridha
It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso
Forget the past; look forward to the future, for the best things are yet to come.
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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wings of time. Jean Paul Richter
Your birthday is the first day of another 365-day journey. Be the shining thread in the beautiful tapestry of the world to make this year the best ever. Enjoy the ride.
To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Tom Stoppard
No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift
Be happy! Today is the day you were brought into this world to be a blessing and inspiration to the people around you! You are a wonderful person! May you be given more birthdays to fulfill all of your dreams!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover! Mark Twain
Inspirational Birthday Quotes For Myself
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire
Live your life with arms open wide. Today is when your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. Natasha Bedingfield
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. Tom Wilson
From our birthday, until we die, / Is but the winking of an eye. William Butler Yeats
I realized it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life. Jennifer Aniston
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. Fred Astaire
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
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier
If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes. Euripides
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
A child whose birthday is coming up is so excited, they count down the days. But as we get older, we seem to lose the excitement. We need to rethink and be happy we have reached another birthday. Theodore W. Higginsworth
Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Goethe
Don’t count the candles on your cake, enjoy the cake. Joel Osteen
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. Steve Jobs
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. Carl Jung
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
You are never too old to set new goals or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday — especially one’s own — brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. Robert Staughton Lynd
Today is a new day and a new beginning. I am thankful for all that I have been given. Happy Birthday to me.
The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet. Robert Orben
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? Satchel Paige
A birthday is a time to reflect on the year gone by, but to also set your goals for the upcoming year. Catherine Pulsifer
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu
Each day is a new beginning. I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God. Queen Elizabeth II
May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift
Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. Charles Swindoll
God has given me another year to live, laugh, and love and that is the best gift I could ever receive. Happy Birthday to me!
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington
