Celebrating 40 Years with 40 Quotes of Wisdom for You

40 Years, 40 Lessons: A Journey Through Self-Care, Business, Parenting, and Aging

This morning’s beautiful sunrise that marked the start of a new decade…

I know I normally publish on the weekends, but I couldn’t help but want to celebrate the below with a surprise post!

Today marks my 40th birthday, and as I reflect on my latest journey around the sun, I wanted to share 40 quotes that have inspired me, and I hope you can glean something from them as well.

Sometimes quotes may get overdone as content, but I've always been a proponent of remaining curious, as there is always something we can learn from others.

To me, quotes are pieces of art on their own, each open for your respective interpretation.

These words have shaped my outlook on self-care, business/careers, parenting, and the beauty of getting older.

I hope these resonate with you as much as they have with me.

Here's to 40 years of learning, growing, and evolving! (And while you're at it, as a birthday gift, I would be most appreciative of your subscribing and resharing!🙏🏻)

10 Self-Care Inspirational Quotes

1. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott

2. “You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.” — Unknown

3. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde

4. “Self-care is how you take your power back.” — Lalah Delia

5. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” — Sean Patrick Flanery

6. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha

7. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” — Jack Kornfield

8. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde

9. “Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.” — Katie Reed

10. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” — Mandy Hale

10 Inspirational Business Quotes

1. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

2. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

3. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller

4. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser

5. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

6. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates

7. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

8. “I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.” — Emile Zola

9. “The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders.” — Pierre Corneille

10. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker

10 Inspirational Parenting Quotes

1. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” — Jess Lair

2. “There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” — Sue Atkins

3. “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” — Peggy O’Mara

4. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” — Barbara Johnson

5. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” — Robert Fulghum

6. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” — Oscar Wilde

7. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass

8. “Behind every young child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed first.” — Matthew L. Jacobson

9. “A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.” — Robert Brault

10. “Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.” — Peter Krause

10 Inspirational Quotes About Getting Older

1. “Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.” — Unknown

2. “You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” — George Bernard Shaw

3. “Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.” — Walt Disney

4. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” — Mark Twain

5. “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” — Oscar Wilde

6. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford

7. “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” — Betty Friedan

8. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

9. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

10. “And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!” — Audrey Hepburn

As I step into this new decade, I’m embracing all the wisdom, growth, and challenges that have come with it. Cheers to the next chapter!