Nancy Astor Quotes

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'

I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

When you're young it's football, football, football. Then you get a family, kids come into things and you find you have a broader view of life. You get your inspiration from many different places.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now.

A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.