Quotes About Longevity

A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.

Industry conduces to longevity. It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the still pool, not the running brook, that stagnates.

It is said that long livers are great hopers. If you keep your hope bright in spite of discouragements, and meet all difficulties with a cheerful face, it will be very difficult for age to trace its furrows on your brow. There is longevity in cheerfulness.

I'm a mammal," said Bean. "I try to live forever whether I actually want to or not.

I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

He said I was bein hard on myself. Said it was a sign of old age. Tryin to set things right. I guess there's some truth to that. But it aint the whole truth. I agreed with him that there wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I waited for him to smile but he didn't. I said well, that's pretty cold. And he said it was no colder than what the facts called for. So that was all there was about that.

The gentleman that succeeded Mr. Endicot was Mr. Richard Bellingham, one who was bred a lawyer, and one who lived beyond eighty, well esteemed for his laudable qualities, but as the Thebans made the statues of their magistrates without hands, importing that they must be no takers;

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

It's remarkable, isn't it, Mr. Bennet said, that for decades at a time, I've stayed alive without your daily instructions?

Cada vez que un hombre ríe, añade un par de días a su vida

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

Stop fighting, eschew violent thoughts and deeds, and give up trying to control others or the world. Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius, as well as that of others; and, above all, return to your invisible Source and shed your troublesome ego while you're still alive and incarnated as one of the 10,000 things. If you do all of this, you will naturally live a long life in joyful, nonjudgmental peace.

naturally live a long life in joyful, nonjudgmental peace.

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

Granted, there are a lot of folks whose fires die out, I get that, but I also think there are a lot of couples out there who have been married thirty, forty, fifty years that know a whole lot more about the loving part of marriage than we give them credit for. We think we're young, we've got the monopoly on passion." I shook my head. "Not so sure. They might give Dr. Phil a run for his money.

Nature tells us to rest after meals and people who are too busy to heed that inner voice are often dead at the age of fifty years.

You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second, or third bottle of Tabasco.

Take-it-easy and Live-long are brothers.

The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.

By chase our long-lived fathers earn'd their food, Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood; But we, their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend.

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

The bowhead lives its life extremely slowly, becoming sexually mature at about age twenty-five, with females giving birth every seven years or so; if it avoids the whalers, a bowhead has a good chance of living well past a century.19 It is definitively the

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

A hadith states, "Anxiety is half of aging." Another hadith states, "Righteousness will lengthen your life.