Many people dread birthdays. It is a reminder of the many things that one ought to have done but did not. If you are somebody who wishes birthdays became extinct, read some of these inspirational birthday quotes and bring back your zest for life. So the next time you get a birthday card that makes fun of your age, counter it with some inspirational birthday quotes. It is your birthday after all.

William Dean Howells
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all.

The time shortens up.

Billy Mills
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

Benjamin Franklin
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Marilyn Ferguson
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.