Best Inspirational Birthday Quotes

Best Birthday Quotes

Birthdays should be celebrated with heartfelt words of appreciation, encouragement, and love. Not just for the person celebrating their birthday but for everyone in their lives. Birthdays are a natural time to reflect on what has been accomplished and what should be done differently. It’s also the perfect time to make our loved ones feel like they matter by telling them how loved they are!

A birthday is a day to celebrate. It’s a time to be with friends and family, to give gifts, and to watch the candles on the cake go out! However, birthdays are also a time to reflect on what you have done in the year that’s passed. They are an opportunity for looking back at all your achievements, failures, hopes, dreams, and wishes for this year. They are also the perfect occasion for making new resolutions for future success.

There are many memorable and thoughtful quotes that we can use to express our feelings on another person’s birthday. Some of these quotes may be personal and heartfelt, while others may be more humorous or just for fun. This article shares a few of the best quotes to use on your friends and loved ones to wish them a happy birthday.

Life’s greatest gifts are best friends, whether you met them as kids or during college. They’re the person who gets you and what they get in return is pure luck. They are always there to share your laughter; especially with the absolutely unfunny jokes that escape you, and won’t let go. They laugh on cue because of their unparalleled companionship over thoughts shared. They are the person to depend on no matter what.

Birthdays are a time to celebrate and wish the recipient a happy and successful future. The following quotes offer great advice for those facing their first, or one of many, birthdays: “You may not be perfect, but you’re perfect for me.” – Unknown “True friends keep your worst secrets like buried treasure.” – Unknown “The best things in life aren’t things.” – Unknown “It’s never too late to become what you might have been.

Best Inspirational Birthday Quotes:

If you need some words to lift your spirits or to get started on the day, here are some inspirational quotes for your birthday.

“Believe in yourself.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

– Bob Marley

“I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

150+ Birthday Quotes Her For You

A birthday is like a new year and my wish for you is a great year full of happiness and sunshine! – Catherine Pulsifer

Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake. – Edward Morykwas

Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it! – Nicky Gumbel

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

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. — Bob Hope

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” Woody Allen

There are two great days in a person’s life—the day we are born and the day we discover why. — William Barclay

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. – Tom Wilson

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

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

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over. — Marianne Williamson

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. – Truman Capote

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. – Groucho Marx

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. — Booth Tarkington

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. — Satchel Paige

Whatever the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. — Lucy Larcom

 Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. — Brigitte Bardot

There is still no cure for the common birthday. — John Glenn

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn’t wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. — Lionel Blue

 The older you get the better you get unless you are a banana. – Betty White

Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning. — Bob Hope

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’ — Jerry Seinfeld

 

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. — John Mason

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

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened. — Cora Harvey Armstrong

When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? — Lisa Loeb

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you. — Bennett Cerf

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

The first hundred years are the hardest. — Wilson Mizner

You don’t get older, you get better. — Shirley Bassey

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl. — Chris Hardwick

Birthdate is a reminder to celebrate life as well as to update life. — Amit Kalantri

Your age isn’t you. Use today to feel your best, celebrate and be your very happiest. — M. Rivers

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

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde

Everything I know I learned after I was 30. — Georges Clemenceau

Birthdays are a great time to stop and appreciate gravity. Sure, it makes things sag as you get older, but it also keeps your cake from flying all over the room, so you don’t have to chase it. – Greg Tamblyn

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday. — Paris Hilton

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it. — Golda Meir

Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. — Anna Magnani

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. — Carl Gustav Jung

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. – Euripides

Each new year of life added to your past, changing the way you viewed every new day, influencing how you reacted to everything from the simplest daily routines to complex events touching you, your family, and the world you lived in. — Paul Snyder

Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece? – Bobby Kelton

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. – Sophie Tucker

Put candles on a cake, it’s a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody’s drunk in the kitchen. – Jim Gaffigan

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

I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and I realize it’s me. – Dave Allen

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. — Charles Schulz

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

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

My life is better with every year of living it. — Rachel Maddow

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. — Fred Astaire

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

Nice to be here? At my age, it’s nice to be anywhere. – George Burns

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

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

My policy on cake is pro-having it and pro-eating it. – Boris Johnson

Life is too short to be small. — Benjamin Disraeli

When the candles on your cake burn down before they are all lit you know you are getting up there. – Catherine Pulsifer

To me, a birthday means celebrating the presence of an individual in our lives. – Meena Bajaj

We are always the same age inside. – Gertrude Stein

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift. — Aretha Franklin

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

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. — Mary Schmich

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

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wings of time. – Jean Paul Richter

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

Let them eat cake. — Marie Antoinette

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody. — George Burns

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

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.” — Robert Staughton Lynd

Celebrate your journey in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A birthday is just another day when 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 only thing better than singing is more singing. — Ella Fitzgerald

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! — Dr. Seuss

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. – Joseph Joubert

No wise man ever wished to be younger. — Jonathan Swift

May you receive many gifts, and may your day be joyous, and best of all may you be surrounded by family and friends. May all you wish for come true. — Theodore W. Higginsworth

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. — John Glenn

Don’t regret another birthday, the good news is that you are alive and can celebrate it. – Catherine Pulsifer

Youth has no age. — Pablo Picasso

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

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. — Madeleine L’Engle

The reason I met my husband was that I remembered a friend’s birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people’s birthdays. — Julianna Margulies

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. – Kitty Collins

Today you are another year older, and we know how fast time flys as we get older, therefore, live each day and be happy! – Kate Summers

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

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

In other words, live vicariously, beautifully, and excitingly, discover, love, dare and act as there is nothing to lose. — Andy Hertz

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday—especially if it was one’s own—brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. — Robert Staughton Lynd

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. – Germaine Greer

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. — Robert Browning

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Best Motivational Birthday Wishes

Birthdays are a time to celebrate and enjoy the company of friends and family. It’s also a great opportunity to wish them well. Send your birthday greetings with these motivational quotes from some of the world’s most notable people.

Everyone has an innate need to be appreciated and recognized for their accomplishments. One of the most heartwarming traditions in birthday celebrations is sending a special message to someone you care about. Celebrate the day by letting them know how you think they are better than everyone else, or make them laugh with some inside jokes. You can also offer them words of encouragement and let them know what makes them so important in your life.

“We grew up together doing crazy things and now its time to do bigger ones. Happy Birthday !!!”

Don’t ever change, because you are just amazing the way you are. Happy Birthday !!!

Nothing can be as joyous as spending time with you, let today be the best of all so far. Happy Birthday !!!

We have spent a lot of quality time together. I am grateful to your parents for your Birthday.

Happy birthday! I hope all your birthday wishes and dreams come true.

May the joy that you have spread in the past come back to you on this day. Wishing you a very happy birthday!

Today is the day you were brought into this world to be a blessing and inspiration to the people around you! Wish you a very happy birthday!

Today you are You; that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ~ Dr. Seuss

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. ~ Sam Hagar

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

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 Expression

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ~ William Shakespeare

A birthday is like a new year and my wish for you is a great year full of happiness and sunshine! ~ Catherine Pulsifer

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. ~ Mark Twain

None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm, ~ Henry David Thoreau

It’s not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams ~ Gabriel G. Marquez

I don’t mind getting older; it’s a privilege denied to so many! ~ Chris Geiger

Don’t regret another birthday, the good news is that you are alive and can celebrate it. ~ Catherine Pulsifer

The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday. ~ Paris Hilton

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~ Emily Dickinson

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~ Tom Wilson

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. ~ Thomas Edison

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

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 doesn’t matter. ~ Mark Twain

You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream”~ Les Brown

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost

A milestone birthday usually means taking the time to consider your life, your goals, and what you have accomplished or not accomplished in your life up to this point. ~ Jenny Mays

To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.~ Bernard Baruch