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Birthdays are special days in which most people like to celebrate one more year of life getting family and friends together. There are many taboos about getting older, so you just have to accept the fact that it happens to everyone, not only you.
In this article, you will find 54 inspirational birthday quotes divided into happy birthday quotes and celebration quotes. Get inspired by them and don’t forget to let your loved ones know you think of them on their birthdays.
Happy Birthday Quotes
Singing “Happy birthday to you” to someone is not the only thing you can do for them on their birthday. Whether you are the one getting older today or someone you love, read these inspirational happy birthday quotes and share them with the world.
1"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
2"You have to get older, but you don’t have to grow up."
3"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
4"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are – even if you are getting older. Thank you for being that friend, and happy birthday."
5"And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
6"Don’t just count your years, make your years count."
7"You will never be as young again as you are today, so have fun. But be careful, because you have never been this old before. Happy birthday."
8"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
9"You don’t get older, you get better."
10"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
11"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be."
12"At least you’re not as old as you will be next year."
13"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young."
14"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
15"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter."
16"Have a wonderful, happy, healthy birthday now and forever."
17"You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
18"Some people get wiser with age. Some people get richer with age. But everybody gets older with age. So good luck on the other two, and happy birthday!"
19"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
20"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
21"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."
22"You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old."
23"Count your age by friends, not years, your life by smiles, not tears."
24"A birthday is like a new year and my wish for you, is a great year full of happiness and sunshine!"
25"You bring happiness into my life. And on this birthday my wish and hope is that you are happy today."
26"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."
27"I believe that no matter what condition you are in when someone close to your heart remembers your birthday and wishes you a happy birthday, you feel happy."
28"Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it."
29"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
30"May your years be counted not by your age but by how you spend your days."
31"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."
32"A birthday is the anniversary of your birth. It's the time most of us reflect over the past year and what we hope for in the coming year."
33"Indeed, birthdays are special days that mark the growth and accomplishment we have made in the year past, and for more to come in the upcoming year."
34"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
35"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
36"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it."
Celebration Quotes
Not everyone likes celebrating their birthday, so here you have some celebration quotes to encourage them to do so and remind them it's always fun to celebrate life.