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Quotes About Longevity

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
~ Francis Quarles
Wish all your enemies a long life, so they can see you succeed in life.
~ Unknown
One of the keys to longevity and good health is to develop a habit of gratitude and let go of past hurts.
~ Unknown
Goals are like diaries if kept secreted they can last decades until discovered.
~ Unknown
A relationship isn't a sprint, it's a marathon.
~ Unknown
Any sage will tell you the secret to longevity is to outlive your predictions and see them to fruition. You cannot gloat from the grave.
~ Unknown
True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life.
~ Unknown
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
~ Helen Hayes
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
History has shown us that the past lives too long, and the future dies too young.
~ Unknown
Life is like a long marathon, you cant stop, but to keep going.
~ Unknown
Success is built over years not days or weeks and that's why if nurtured well, it sustains over long durations.
~ Unknown
People who want to get everything all at once, usually end up getting nothing in life.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Short cuts make for long delays.
~ Unknown
I do not ask to live to a hundred," my aunt would say, for she preferred to have no definite limit fixed to the number of her days.
~ Marcel Proust
Time has a way of evening things out, the simple ways endure, and the fancy pants with his smart new way falls by the roadside. The best way to tell how long a thing will last is ask how long it's been around for. The newest things end soonest. And things that have been around for a good long while will last awhile to come.
~ Unknown
I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
~ Marcia Cross
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Do you think preservatives make you live longer, or do they kill you off, asks Fran. She has often wondered about this.
~ Margaret Drabble
Longevity has fucked up our pensions, our work–life balance, our health services, our housing, our happiness. It's fucked up old age itself.
~ Margaret Drabble
Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.
~ Unknown
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
~ Mariah Carey
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper