130 Birthday Quotes, Wishes & Messages to say Happy Birthday

Birthdays are the special occasions which people celebrate with friends and family. As this special day comes just once a year, the significance of this day augments naturally. No other day can be better than Birthdays to inspire and motivate the people to whom you care for. Many a time, when you think of expressing your feelings while writing a birthday message to a friend or family member, your mind goes blank and you are unable to fetch the most suitable words.

Adding inspirational words to “Happy Birthday” wishes will be an unwrapped Birthday Gift. It will make your birthday wishes more meaningful when you add unique birthday quotes. Check out these inspirational birthday quotes, wishes, images, video and messages for your love, friends or relatives to share with them on their special day. This curation of birthday wishes for an inspirational person will definitely give you words to express your birthday wishes in a better way.

Birthday Wishes

1. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” ~ Voltaire

2. “Today, be aware of how you are spending your 86400 beautiful moments and spend them mindfully – The true Mindful Birthday ” ~ Invajy

3. “Celebrate your birthday with gratitude, kindness, and compassion to give a good reason for your existence in this world. Happy birthday !!! ” ~ Invajy

4. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”  ~ John Lennon

5. “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” ~ John Mason

6. “Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” ~ Booth Tarkington

7. “There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” ~ William Barclay

8. “It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.” ~ Brigitte Bardot

9. “When you wake up every day, it’s like a new birthday: it’s a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.” ~ Poo Bear
10. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

Hey !!! It’s birthday of loved one. You may also start the day of Birthday Boy or Birthday Girl in inspiring way with these Inspirational Good Morning Quotes. Not only this you may like to put a smile on his or her face with these Funny Quotes.

Happy Birthday Wishes Images

Birthday Quotes

11. “I decided if you’re lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.” ~ Mary Steenburgen
12. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
13. “We have to be able to grow up. 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
14. “Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.” ~ Jean Paul
15. You don’t get older, you get better. ~ Shirley Bassey
16. “Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” ~ George Meredith
17. “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.” ~ Chili Davis
18. “Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.” ~ Lucy Larcom
19. “Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
20. “The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once” ~ Cossman

Inspirational Birthday Quotes

21. “Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” ~ Tom Wilson
22. “I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.” ~ Thomas Edison
23. “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
24. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
25. “Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ~ Mark Twain
26. “You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” ~ Les Brown
27. “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” ~ Robert Frost
28. “A milestone birthday usually means taking the time to consider your life, your goals, and what you have accomplished or not accomplished in your life up to this point.” ~ Jenny Mays
29. “To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.” ~ Bernard Baruch
30. “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

Happy Birthday Quotes for Friends

31. “Today you are You; that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”  ~ Dr. Seuss
32. “Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.” ~ Sam Hagar
33. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
34. “Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” ~ Tom Stoppard
35. “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

112. “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” ~ Larry Lorenzoni

113. “I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.” ~ Mitch Hedberg

114. “Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.” ~ Anthony Powell
115. “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
116. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
117. “At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.” ~ Jim Bishop
118. “From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.”~ William Butler Yeats
119. “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
120. “I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” ~ Steven Wright

Birthday Quotes

121. “Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.” ~ Sammy Hagar
122. “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
123. “May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.” ~ Irish blessing
124. “Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.” ~ Margaret Fuller
125. “Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
126. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change.” ~ Darwin
127. “Don’t celebrate how old you are. Celebrate the years you survived.” ~ Touaxia Vang
128. “Today you are You; that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ~ Dr. Seuss
129. “A birthday comes but once a year and we don’t want you to shed a tear. Here’s to you on your special day, your a living legend we do say.” ~ Catherine Pulsifer
130. “Do you count your birthdays thankfully?” ~ Horace

Have fun using the above birthday quotes and birthday images in your blogs or while making “Happy Birthday” cards. If you have some of your own birthday quotes to share, please feel free to share them in the comments section. When your loved one sends you birthday messages, never forget to show gratitude by saying thank you for birthday wishes to appreciate their love for you.