Your 30th birthday is a special one, the huge 30 is a scary number when you reflect upon it, 30 might seem like a big number, but remember, 30 is still young. Celebrate your 30th birthday with your loved ones with friends, and family. These 30th birthday quotes will make you happy, and they will inspire you to keep going in life.
30th Birthday Quotes
- “Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I’m now a walking and talking adult.” C. S. Lewis
- “Persist. Don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.” David Rubenstein
- “Thirty – the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.” Scott Fitzgerald
- “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Muhammad Ali
- “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” Aldous Huxley
- “Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.” Anna Magnani.
- “Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.” Jimmy Buffet
- “Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” Milan Kundera
- “We count by changes and events within us. Not by years.” Charles Dickens
- “At 30 you finally start to catch up on those dreams you’ve been chasing for the last 10 plus years” Bonidette Lanz
- “If you want to fly, give everything up that weighs you down.” Toni Morrison
- “After 30, a body has a mind of its own.” Bette Midler
- “The only time you really live fully is from 30 to 60. The young are slaves to dreams; the old, servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.” Hervey Allen
- “At twenty years of age, the will reign; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.” Benjamin Franklin
- “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln.
- “Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional!” Walt Disney
- “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” George Burns
- “J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter.” Pablo
- “Age is a necessary but insufficient requirement for growing up. There are immature old people, and there are appropriately mature young people.” Henry Cloud
- “Age is a matter of feeling, not of year.” George William Curtis
- “30 is the new 20, unless you’re 20, then it’s the new 40.” Dane Peddigrew
- “A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summertime.” Lew Wallace
- “The excess of our youth are checks written against our age, and they are payable with interest 30 years later.” Charles Caleb Colton
- “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” Arthur Schopenhauer
- “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” Robert Frost
- “We are always the same age inside.” Gertrude Stein
- “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.” Samuel Ullman
- “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” Oscar Wilde
- “Intelligence is not like height or weight that we can just easily gauge with a metal instrument and determine its precise measure. It may have contrasted meanings for various cultures, age bracket, and skillsets.” Cooper Dark
- “Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Jack Benny
- “Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn’t that bad.” Michelle Pfeiffer
- “I’m turning thirty this year. And you know the saying, a woman over thirty is more likely to get hit by a bomb than find a man.” Fanny Fink
- “Everything I know I learned after I was 30” Georges Clemenceau
- “A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?”. She doesn’t care what you think.” Andy Rooney
- “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” Larry Lorenzoni.
- “Age is something that doesn’t matter… unless you are a cheese!” Billie Burke
- “If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart; if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains!” Kevin Spacey
- “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” Edgar Allan Poe
- “Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” E.M
- “Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty” Robert Frost
- “In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.” Chaka Khan
- “I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I’d just look up one day and be old.” Terry MacMillan
- “When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like your parents.” Blair Sabol
- “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” Lucille Ball
- “From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.” William Butler Yeats
- “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” John Lennon
- “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” Sophia Loren
- “I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde
- “We may lose a lot of our childhood wonder as we move through adulthood and middle age, but as we age we have a chance to live in wonder again (and freshly, maturely) as never before.” Michael Gurian