21+ Best Turning 50 Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational turning 50 quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

Famous Turning 50 Quotes

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. – Coco Chanel

Looking fifty is great – if you’re sixty. – Joan Rivers

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. – T S Eliot

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth olf old age. – Victor Hugo

Remember how excited you are when you turn 5 years old. You should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday! – unknown

The face you have at age twenty-five is the face God gave you, but the face you have after fifty is the face you earned. – Cindy Crawford

50 is the age when you look back and smile at what you have achieved, frown at those missed opportunities, and release a slight chuckle at those moments. – unknown

Turning fifty … is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. – Erica Jong

Fifty is an excellent age… if you’re a bottle of wine. – unknown

A Man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. – Muhammad Ali

By the time we hit 50, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. – Marie Dressler

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows. – Bill Clinton

After a man is 50, you can fool him by saying he is smart, but you can’t fool him by saying he’s pretty. – E.W. House

Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. – Phyllis Diller

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. – George Orwell

Happy 20th anniversary of your 30th Birthday! – unknown

Turning 50 means it’s only a matter of time before you’re regaling your grandkids with the details of your first colonoscopy. – Greg Tamblyn

There are plenty of good things about being 50. Just ask any 80 year old. – unknown

If you haven’t grown up by age 50, you don’t have to. – unknown

Being fifty takes stamina and endurance that even youth doesn’t offer. – unknown

The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty! – Elizabeth Cady Stanton