If you’re here then it’s likely someone’s birthday today (or it’s coming up soon).
Maybe it’s your sister. Or husband or wife. Perhaps your son or daughter.
Or maybe it’s your best friend.
Either way, in today’s post I want to help you out with that and share 160 of the most meaningful, funny and inspirational birthday quotes.
Use one or a couple of them in a birthday card to help you find the right words to express how you deep down feel. On social media like Instagram to celebrate this lovely person.
Or in a text message or in real life at a birthday dinner or party to bring a few laughs and positive energy.
I hope you’ll find something here to help you make the birthday you are thinking about right now a happy and fun one.
Inspirational Birthday Quotes
“Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”
– Sammy Hagar
“Today is the oldest you have been and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!”
– Nicky Gumbel
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”
– Dr. Seuss
“Don’t just count your years, make your years count.”
– George Meredith
“When I count my blessings, I count you twice.”
– Irish Proverb
“A birthday is the anniversary of your birth. It’s the time most of us reflect over the past year and what we hope for in the coming year.”
– Claudia T. Hudson
“A birthday is a time to count our blessings.”
– Leroy Brownlow
“My life is better with every year of living it.”
– Rachel Maddow
“Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life.”
– Wilfred Peterson
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
– Emily Dickinson
“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born, and the day we discover why.”
– William Barclay
“Your age isn’t you. Use today to feel your best, celebrate and be your very happiest.”
– M. Rivers
“A birthday is not a day to fear. It is a day to celebrate and look forward to the coming year.”
– Byron Pulsifer
“A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.”
– Amit Kalantri
“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wings of time.”
– Jean Paul Richter
“Celebrate your journey of life.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“Today, you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness.”
– Debasish Mridha
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– Les Brown
“Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.”
– Menachem Mendel Schneerson
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
– John Lennon
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
– Voltaire
Birthday Quotes for Friends (and for Your Best Friend)
“A birthday is like a new year, and my wish for you is a great year full of happiness and sunshine!”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.”
– Larry Lorenzoni
“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.”
– Brad Garrett
“Go, go, go, go go, go, go, shawty. It’s your birthday. We gon’ party like it’s yo birthday.”
– 50 Cent
“May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.”
– Irish Blessing
“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”
– Plautus
“Birthdays are inevitable, beautiful and very particular moments in our lives! Moments that bring precious memories back, celebrate the present times and give hope for the future.”
– Babe Arish
“Another year comes to a close, and another begins. May the coming year be one that will be filled with laughter of friends, love of family, and the life that you dream of.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“Birthdays come but once a year, celebrate and be of good cheer.”
– Robert Rivers
“I believe that no matter what condition you are in, when someone close to your heart remembers your birthday and wishes you a happy birthday, you feel happy.”
– A. Singla
“To me, a birthday means celebrating the presence of an individual in our lives.”
– Meena Bajaj
“The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend’s birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people’s birthdays.”
– Julianna Margulies
“Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories.”
– Buddy Valastro
“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”
– Booth Tarkington
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
– George Harrison
“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”
– Pope Paul VI
Birthday Quotes for Your Daughter or Son
“Youth has no age.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Keep true to the dream of thy youth.”
– Friedrich Von Schiller
“Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.”
– Chris Hardwick
“From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.”
– Sophie Tucker
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
– Margaret Fuller
“For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.”
– Chris Evans
“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”
– Jim Bishop
“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.”
– Orson Welles
“Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”
– Goethe
“I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.”
– Aimee Bender
“For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.”
– Yotam Ottolenghi
“A child whose birthday is coming up is so excited, they count down the days. But as we get older, we seem to lose the excitement. We need to rethink and be happy we have reached another birthday.”
– Theodore W. Higginsworth
“You were born, and with you, endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It’s okay. Life was never about what you could do but what you would do.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child. Now, I have reversed the order, and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”
– Mary Pickford
“At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Funny Birthday Quotes
“As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.”
– Norman Wisdom
“The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana.”
– Betty White
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.”
– Lucille Ball
“I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then, I look in a mirror and see an old bastard, and I realize it’s me.”
– Dave Allen
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”
– Charles Schulz
“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.”
– Edward Morykwas
“You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
– Bob Hope
“To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
– Bernard Baruch
“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself.”
– Tom Wilson
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde
“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Everything I know I learned after I was 30.”
– Georges Clemenceau
“Let them eat cake.”
– Marie Antoinette
“Birthdays are a great time to stop and appreciate gravity. Sure, it makes things sag as you get older, but it also keeps your cake from flying all over the room, so you don’t have to chase it.”
– Greg Tamblyn
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it.”
– Golda Meir
“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
– Ogden Nash
“Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.”
– Anna Magnani
“Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on, and everybody rushes to get a piece?”
– Bobby Kelton
“Put candles in a cake, it’s a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody’s drunk in the kitchen.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
– Groucho Marx
“When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?”
– Lisa Loeb
“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”
– John Glenn
Happy Birthday Quotes for a Husband or Wife
“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”
– Lucy Larcom
“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
– Brigitte Bardot
“To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn’t wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.”
– Lionel Blue
“You don’t get older, you get better.”
– Shirley Bassey
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
“Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.”
– Tim Cook
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
– The Beatles
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.”
– Boris Johnson
“Life is too short to be small.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“We are always the same age inside.”
– Gertrude Stein
“Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.”
– Aretha Franklin
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
– Pope John XXIII
“They say it’s your birthday. We’re gonna have a good time. I’m glad it’s your birthday. Happy birthday to you.”
– The Beatles
“Romance novels are birthday cake, and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
– Janet Evanovich
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”
– Robert Frost
Birthday Quotes for Your Sister or Brother
“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.”
– Cora Harvey Armstrong
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
– Satchel Paige
“Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning.”
– Bob Hope
“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
– William Shakespeare
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.”
– Anthony Powell
“None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.”
– Euripides
“Each new year of life added to your past, changing the way you viewed every new day, influencing how you reacted to everything from the simplest daily routines to complex events touching you, your family and the world you lived in.”
– Paul Snyder
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.”
– Kitty Collins
“Today you are another year older, and we know how fast time flies as we get older; therefore, live each day and be happy!”
– Kate Summers
“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.”
– Ausonius
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
– John Mason
“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”
– Lewis Carroll
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
– Satchel Paige
“You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’”
– Jerry Seinfeld
Happy Birthday Quotes for Your Mom or Dad
“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”
– Bernard Baruch
“Don’t regret another birthday; the good news is that you are alive and can celebrate it.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
“Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.”
– Lauren Hutton
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
– Mark Twain
“Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”
– David Bowie
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
– Franz Kafka
“I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody.”
– George Burns
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
– Cherokee proverb
“Most of us can remember a time when a birthday- especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun had risen.”
– Robert Staughton Lynd
“A birthday is just another day where you go to work, and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.”
– Abhishek Bachchan
“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
– Joseph Joubert
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
– Jonathan Swift
“May you receive many gifts, and may your day be joyous, and best of all, may you be surrounded by family and friends. May all you wish for come true.”
– Theodore W. Higginsworth
“Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.”
– John Glenn
“Nature gives you the face you have at 20, but it’s up to you to merit the face you have at 50.”
– Coco Chanel
Happy Birthday to Me Quotes
“The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday.”
– Paris Hilton
“In other words, live vicariously, beautifully, and excitingly, discover, love, dare and act as there is nothing to lose.”
– Andy Hertz
“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”
– Tom Stoppard
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright
“I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“A birthday is a time to reflect, to take stock and to look ahead.”
– Kevan Manwaring
“Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.”
– William Shakespeare
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
– George Santayana
“I don’t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It’s weird when I say I’m 53. It just is crazy that I’m 53. I think I’m very immature. I feel like a kid. That’s why my back goes out all the time because I completely forget I can’t do certain things anymore – like doing the plank for 10 minutes.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
“If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do is to save every day.”
– Jim Croce
“Live long and prosper.”
– Mr. Spock
“Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.”
– J. P. Sears
“I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I’m one year older, everyone else is, too.”
– Gloria Swanson
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.”
– Mitch Hedberg
“You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.”
– Germaine Greer
Short Birthday Quotes for Him or Her
“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”
– Mary Schmich
“Nice to be here? At my age, it’s nice to be anywhere.”
– George Burns
“When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.”
– Joan Rivers
“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.”
– Robert Orben
“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
“Birthday should be considered as a unit of measurement to measure our present status toward success!”
– Mohith Agadi
“Life seems to fade our memory, so on this birthday, I will forget yours if you forget mine!”
– Kate Summers
“When the candles on your cake burn down before they are all lit, you know you are getting up there.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“We should celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we’re happier and healthier.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
“Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday.”
– Bret Hart
“From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.”
– William Butler Yeats
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art.”
– Garson
“Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays.”
– Mindy Kaling
“Why party like it’s 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?”
– Prince
“At least you’re not as old as you will be next year.”
– Unknown
“The first hundred years are the hardest.”
– Wilson Mizner
Do you want more fun and uplifting inspiration? Then check out these funny quotes of the day, the inspirational quotes of the day in this post and also the meaningful and cute best friend quotes here.