Celebration Quotes for Birthdays & Congratulations

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

— A.A. Milne

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

— Cesare Pavese

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

— John Glenn

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

— John Lennon

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Brault

“Retire from work, but not from life.”

— M.K. Soni

“The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.”

— E. Joseph Cossman

“Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast.”

— Corita Kent

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

— Arthur Ashe

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”

— George Harrison

“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”

— Paul Sweeney

“A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.”

— Unknown

“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!”

— Dr. Seuss

“Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's heaven on earth.”

— Unknown

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

— Mark Twain

“May you live all the days of your life.”

— Jonathan Swift

“Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.”

— Orrin Hatch

“Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.”

— Charles Dickens

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

— Dalai Lama

“Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God.”

— Larry Barretto

“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”

— Plautus

“The manner in which we celebrate reveals what we truly value.”

— Unknown

“The best is yet to come.”

— Frank Sinatra

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

— Unknown

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

— Tom Peters

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

— Albert Einstein

“Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!”

— Unknown

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

— A.A. Milne

“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”

— Sammy Hagar

“The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.”

— Helen Mirren

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“A milestone is less about the destination and more about the journey that brought you here.”

— Unknown

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

— Robert Browning

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

— Walt Disney

“May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows.”

— Unknown

“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”

— Unknown

“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.”

— Walt Disney

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

— Lucille Ball

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!”

— Dom Perignon

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.”

— Unknown

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

— Mark Twain

“Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.”

— Osho

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Henry Ford

“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.”

— Walt Disney

“Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.”

— Ruth Ann Schabacker

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”

— Reba McEntire

“Cheers to the nights we will never forget and the friends we will never remember them without.”

— Unknown

“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”

— Jules Renard

“Congratulations are in order, but so is a reminder: the best is yet to come.”

— Unknown

“The tassel was worth the hassle.”

— Unknown

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

— Dalai Lama

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”

— Carl Sandburg

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

— Unknown

“Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.”

— Amit Ray

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

— John Lennon

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

“Life is a party. Dress for it.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Happiness is only real when shared.”

— Christopher McCandless

“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”

— Sarah Louise Delany

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

“Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: the same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.”

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”

— Lawrence Block

“The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”

— Les Brown

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you.”

— Unknown

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”

— Linda Grayson

“Don't just count your years, make your years count.”

— George Meredith

“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”

— Nora Ephron

“In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

— Karl Barth

“A new baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”

— Eda LeShan

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

— Mark Twain

“A party without cake is just a meeting.”

— Julia Child

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

— Dr. Seuss

“The more you celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Unknown

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

— Unknown

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

— Dr. Seuss

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

— Seneca

“Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.”

— Unknown

“Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Great things never came from comfort zones.”

— Unknown

“Celebrate the small wins; they add up to big victories.”

— Unknown

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Bronte