Life Stages Quotes

“At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I took my stand; at forty I came to be free from doubts; at fifty I understood the decree of Heaven.”

Confucius

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I took my stand; at forty I came to be free from doubts; at fifty I understood the decree of Heaven; at sixty my ear was attuned; at seventy I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the line.”

Confucius

“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“As the embodied soul passes in this body through childhood, youth and old age, so it passes into another body; the wise are not deluded by this.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.”