70+ Birthday Quotes to Help Celebrate the Best Day of the Year

There are very few days as joyful, celebratory, and communal as a birthday. From unique birthday party themes to elaborate birthday gifts, there's no shortage of ways to celebrate the day a family, friend, or loved one was born.

But if you're wanting to truly mark the occasion in a memorable way, consider sharing some birthday quotes with the lucky birthday boy or girl to let them know how much they're truly loved. Whether it's sharing a few meaningful birthday wish, or laughing your way through a funny birthday quote that is sure to leave the person of the hour in a puddle of happy tears, the following quotes and messages truly embody the spirit of any birthday celebration.

Of course, these quotes double as great birthday Instagram captions too, so the entire world can know how much you love the special person in your life, whether that's your husband, wife, brother, sister, or friend. And if you're purchasing a personalized gift to mark the special occasion, these quotes can also make for a great engraving on a piece of jewelry or picture frame.

Celebrate someone truly special coming into the world with the following famous birthday quotes:

Funny Birthday Quotes

• "One of the best parts of getting older? You can flirt all you want since you’ve become harmless." —Liz Smith
• “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it.” —Golda Meir
• “The good thing about getting older is if you don't want to do something you can say, I'm too old to do that!” —Kate Summers
• “Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.” —Kin Hubbard
• “At least you're not as old as you will be next year.” —Author Unknown
• “You know you've aged when you read events you lived in a history book.” —Will Ferrell, The Funny Book
• “You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” —Ogden Nash
• "Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened."- Cora Harvey Armstrong
• "As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." —Norman Wisdom
• "You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” —Bob Hope
• “The older you get the better you get unless you are a banana.” —Betty White
• “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
• “Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” —Tom Stoppard
• “Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?” — Prince
• “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” —Larry Lorenzoni
• “The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.” —H. V. Prochnow
• “Life seems to fade our memory, so on this birthday, I will forget yours if you forget mine!” —Kate Summers
• “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
• “A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.” —Erma Bombeck
• “Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays.” —Mindy Kaling
• “I wouldn’t say you’re old. You’ve just been young for longer than most of us.” —Author unknown
• "Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened." —Cora Harvey Armstrong

Birthday quotes double as great birthday Instagram captions, so the entire world can know how much you love the birthday boy or girl in your life.

Inspiring Birthday Quotes

• "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." —Voltaire
• “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” —John Mason
• "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." —Les Brown
• “Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.” —Sammy Hagar
• "You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old." —George Burns
• “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” —Betty Friedan
• “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” —Samuel Ullman
• "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
• Don't just count your years, make your years count." George Meredith
• "Celebrate your journey of life." —Lailah Gifty Akita
• "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same." —Audrey Hepburn
• "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." —Brian Tracy
• "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
• “I believe the second half of one’s life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.” —Frances Lear
• “I’ve always said that I will never let an old person into my body. That is, I don’t believe in ‘thinking’ old. Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable.” —Wayne Dyer
• “Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” —Maggie Kuhn
• “When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face-lift any day.” —Marty Buccella
• “Here’s what I know: I’m a better person at fifty than I was at forty-eight … and better at fifty-two than I was at fifty. I’m calmer, easier to live with. All this stuff is in my soul forever. Just don’t get lazy. Work at your relationships all the time. Take care of friendships, hold people you love close to you, take advantage of birthdays to celebrate fiercely. It’s the worrying — not the years themselves — that will make you less of a woman.” —Patti LaBelle
• “Aging isn’t about getting old it’s about living.Learning that you can age well will actually help you to age better. Let’s start celebrating and live an engaged life, and stop punishing ourselves for not looking a certain way, and instead holding ourselves accountable for actually taking care of ourselves inside first. Knowing the results on the exterior will be a shining side effect.” —Cameron Diaz
• ”The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.” —Maya Angelou
• "If you don't take the time to think about and analyze your life, you'll never realize all the dots that are all connected.” —Beyonce
• "Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself." —Beyonce
• As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear. —Tracee Ellis Ross

Birthday quotes truly embody the spirit of any birthday celebration.

Uplifting Birthday Quotes

• "May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live." —Irish Blessing
• “Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it." —Brigitte Bardot
• "Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories." —Buddy Valastro
• "My life is better with every year of living it." —Rachel Maddow
• "Getting older is an adventure, not a problem. " —Betty Friedan
• "Wrinkles merely mark where smiles have been." —Mark Twain
• “Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” —C.S. Lewis
• “Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead." —Penélope Cruz
• "The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great so that everyone looks forward to it." —Emma Thompson
• “You’re not getting older. You’re getting better.” — author unknown
• "Ageing is just another word for living." —Cindy Joseph
• "One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming." —Morgan Harper Nichols
• "Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever." —Walt Disney
• “Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!” —Anna Kournikova
• "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
• "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." —Madeleine L'Engle
• "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." —Oprah Winfrey
• “Every year should teach you something valuable; whether you get the lesson is up to you. Every year brings you closer to expressing your whole and healed self.” —Oprah Winfrey
• “Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.” —Louise Hay
• “Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. When we are young, we have the face and figure God gave us. We did nothing to earn our good looks. But as we get older, character becomes etched on our face. Beautiful old people are works of art. Like a white candle in a holy place, so it the beauty of an aged face.” —James Simpson
• “Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.” —Keith Richards"
• "Birthdays are nothing but milestones of what you have achieved in life. Your future is full of many more milestones, each marking a bigger achievement." —author unknown
• “Today you are You; that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Younger than You.” —Dr. Seuss
• “It’s not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” —Gabriel G. Marquez

Birthday Quotes for Kids

• "On your birthday, always remember how lucky you are to be surrounded by everyone who loves you. Indulge in your cake and enjoy all your presents." —Author Unknown
• “Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.” —Maureen Hawkins
• “When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?” —Lisa Loeb
• “They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.” —Author Unknown
• “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
• “Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes ... How do you measure, measure a year?” —Jonathan Larson from "Seasons of Love" in the musical Rent

Share a funny birthday quote and leave the birthday boy or girl crying happy tears.

Birthday Quotes for Friends

• “Let's celebrate — remember a year in a life of friends.” —Jonathan Larson from "Seasons of Love" in the musical Rent
• “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” —John Lennon
• “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 Expression
• “Don’t get all weird about getting older. Our age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying us.” —Author Unknown
• “Growing old with someone else is beautiful, but growing old while being true to yourself is divine.” —Dodinsky

Terri Huggins Hart

Terri Huggins Hart is an award-winning journalist, lifestyle writer, parenting writer, and race and culture writer who is convinced she's figured out the trick to living life with no regrets: do what you love, give love, lead with love. She's also the writer of an active monthly newsletter sharing tips for motivation and emotional well-being. When not writing, she can be found working out via Zumba or pole dancing, reciting her favorite affirmations and covering her adorable kids in kisses. You can learn more about Terri on her website, TerrificWords.com, or following her on social media @terrificwords.