Welcome to our curated collection of Longevity Quotes, where the wisdom of ages past meets the aspirations of tomorrow. Longevity, the cherished pursuit of extending the quality and quantity of our lives, has captivated humanity throughout history. From philosophers to scientists, poets to leaders, voices across time have pondered the secrets to a long and fulfilling existence. In this compilation, we delve into the thoughts and reflections of notable figures, offering insights, inspirations, and perspectives on the timeless quest for longevity. As we explore these quotes, may they spark contemplation, motivation, and perhaps even action towards a life well-lived.
Somebody said to me this morning, ‘To what do you attribute your longevity?’ I don’t know. I mean, I couldn’t have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I’ve lived the last 30 years! Ozzy Osbourne
In a certain way, longevity is its own kind of success. While we would like to be in the position of those bands that are secure in ways that maybe we’re not, we kind of feel like we’re in a better position. We’re bitter for short periods of time, but in the long run, we think we won out. Ron Mael
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. Sun Tzu
I don’t know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It’s more than talent and beauty. Maybe it’s the audience seeing itself in you. Joan Blondell
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age. Cat Cora
Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven’t won the lead roles. I don’t have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated. Selma Blair
We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can’t do. Like stay home one week and play the next week. David Duval
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it. George Burns
Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home. Tony Dungy
I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I’m tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce. Maria Menounos
The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss. Richard Simmons
It’s a real roller-coaster ride if you’re lucky to have longevity in this business – you have to be able to ride those waves. Jennifer Lopez
And then finally, I’m the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they’ve had the best six months of their life. Chris Hadfield
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives. Dan Buettner
Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity. George Thorogood
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault – and I must tread carefully here – if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage. Terry Wogan
I wasn’t thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect. Graham Nash
There will always be rock stars, but I don’t know how much depth and longevity they’ll have. Rick Springfield
There is so much I admire about Buffon. His longevity is remarkable, his loyalty to Juventus impeccable. Jamie Carragher
The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It’s hard to get the first job, but it’s so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman. Anna Faris
Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity. Amanda Seyfried
I’m most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don’t have that, you really don’t have very much. Bob Newhart
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men. Gro Harlem Brundtland
My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern. Alonzo Mourning
I’m blessed beyond measures to play the sport that I love and hopefully have longevity. Devin Booker
Career wise, consistency is one of the keys to longevity. When you are consistent people know what they are going to get, and that’s the foundation for having a long career. Jamal Crawford
I don’t pretend to be an eco-warrior; I need to perform in an air-conditioned space otherwise my make-up will melt off. But I definitely buy clothes with longevity in mind; I love the idea of a shoe that lasts a lifetime. Violet Chachki
I’m trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it. Aaron Paul
The comic is today’s western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it’s important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they’re on. Erin Gray
Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity? Frank Ocean
Do, What you’re going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow. Skitch Henderson
There’s no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio. Danny Bonaduce
If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. Alberto Juantorena
To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there’s a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost. Laurence D. Fink
I want that longevity in the career, so if you don’t know how to get it, you trying to chase that high, you trying to continue to chase your dreams and conquer things you never thought you could get. And you just want to get there too soon, so you taking the wrong moves to try and compensate what’s not happening. Future
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity. Helen Hayes
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that’s part of the reason why I’ve had longevity. Lenny Kravitz
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had. Michael Connelly
The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity. Alexander McQueen
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning. Carl Jung
Longevity in friendship is very important and one of the keys to the foundation of a happy life. Karrueche Tran
To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health. John Williams
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future. Satya Nadella
I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career. Diana Ross
And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there’s gotta be some history. Edwin Starr
Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements. Christy Turlington
There’s no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea. Curtis Joseph
Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness. Kyle Shewfelt
Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren’t what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years. Dan Buettner
Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword. Rhys Darby
I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a ‘superstar’ gets me good roles, then that’s a positive thing. But my goal isn’t just to be a superstar. It’s to act for a long time. Penelope Ann Miller
In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it’s not a Grammy, it’s longevity. Christian Kane
My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you’re in an eight-mile race, you never give up. Alice Cooper
I’m not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn’t dependent on my great, great good looks. Holly Hunter
When you write a song, a song has longevity. Smokey Robinson
I think it’s important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don’t want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. Aaliyah
Image is the most important thing about someone’s career and longevity. Jessica Simpson
There are some designers who flash and burn – Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don’t think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition. Suzy Menkes
So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity. Charlie Hunnam
The only way to have longevity is to have good songs. Brett Young
For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation. Marilyn Manson
I’m not going to give up doing interesting things. I’m going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business. Jessica Biel
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost. Jill Scott
Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity. Gelila Bekele
If I’m not hungry and I’m busy, I am quite happy to skip a meal. It’s informal intermittent fasting. I feel strongly that this is one of the strongest areas of longevity research. David Andrew Sinclair
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world. Dan Buettner
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. Edna Ferber
Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It’s not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it’s the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise. David Andrew Sinclair
To sustain longevity, you have to evolve. Aries Spears
Look at The Beatles: how they struggled, how they worked in order to become such a good little band. And that’s why they had such longevity and are still admired today. Bjorn Ulvaeus
The United States has the biggest discrepancy in health and longevity between our wealthiest and our poorest of any country on Earth. Robert Sapolsky
To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can’t keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I’ve turned down stuff and lost money. Mike Epps
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now. Martina McBride
Longevity conquers scandal every time. Shelby Foote
It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity. John Cameron
If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it’s something like 35 years or younger. In other words… success is no indication of longevity. Simon Sinek
The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients. Joel Fuhrman
Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I’ve always hoped to have a really long career. So I’ve tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn’t realize the two could go together. Jewel
When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity. Bob Newhart
As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it. Kevin Hart
It’s very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that’s hard. Michelle Phan
I don’t compare shows. It’s very simple. I don’t live in the past. If there’s any secret to my longevity, it’s living in the future. And a little bit in the present. Harold Prince
I think it’s really important to remember that it’s a long life, and it’s a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career. Laura Leighton
You’re always going to have people that are naysayers, that don’t believe in your talent, that don’t believe that you have any kind of longevity. Vanessa Williams
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti. Mario Batali
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. Garson Kanin
You’ve got to be picky in this business – if you’re not, then I don’t think you have the option of longevity. You’ve got to be choosy and try and do something that’s outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush. Aaron Paul
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. William C. Kirby
Matching tattoos don’t ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship. Jenna Wortham
I find biking challenges so many aspects of health that are important for longevity, acuity, and mental health. Yannick Bisson
Words have a longevity that I do not have. Paul Kalanithi
I’m just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity. Johnny Mathis
You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. Don King
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer. Rachel Ward
Key to longevity… drinking embalming fluid every year. Angus Young
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt. William Vickrey
We are lucky to have had the longevity we’ve had, garnering new people. I’ve even become cool to my daughters’ friends. Curt Smith
But my longevity is due to my good timing. Tony Curtis
The most important thing for me to teach my children is about health and fitness. It’s about taking care of your body and eating foods that are good for you and getting the right exercise that you need… It’s just about living a healthy life for longevity and a healthy heart. Candace Cameron Bure
