Its not the years in your life abraham lincoln

Q: Did Abraham Lincoln say its the life in your years?

Its the life in your years.” ANSWER: No, that quote is not from President Lincoln. A quick internet search shows its often wrongly attributed to the 16th president.

Q: Who said the quote it is not the years in your life?

And in the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln is credited with this aphorism, but I cannot find it in his collected works.

This quote is often misattributed to Lincoln. The earliest instance that Quote Investigator could locate was "in an advertisement in 1947 for a book about aging by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D". The advertisement for “The Second Forty Years” which ran in the Chicago Tribune newspaper read like this: The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years! (Compare 1947 March 16, Chicago Tribune, “How Long Do You Plan to Live?”, [Advertisement for the book "The Second Forty Years" by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D.], p. C7, Chicago, Illinois. (ProQuest)). Source of misattribution: It’s Not the Years in Your Life That Count. It’s the Life in Your Years - Abraham Lincoln? Adlai Stevenson? Edward J. Stieglitz? Anonymous? by Quote Investigator on July 14, 2012 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/14/life-years-count/
To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run.
Adlai Stevenson II, Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954) http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/stevenson/adlai1954.html. This has also been paraphrased "What matters most is not the years in your life, but the life in your years" and misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mae West.
Adlai Stevenson II, "If I Were Twenty-One" in Coronet (December 1955).
Misattributed
Variant: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

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„To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run.“

— Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965

Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954).
Variant: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
"If I Were Twenty-One" in Coronet (December 1955).
This has also been paraphrased "What matters most is not the years in your life, but the life in your years" and misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mae West
Context: All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. Don't be afraid of being out of tune with your environment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You'll have more fun, you'll do more and you'll get more, you'll give more satisfaction the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adventure at a stirring time in the annals of men.

„Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.“

— Cormac McCarthy American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen 
Variant: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Context: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

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Did Abraham Lincoln say it's the life in your years?

It's the life in your years.” ANSWER: No, that quote is not from President Lincoln. A quick internet search shows it's often wrongly attributed to the 16th president.

What is Abraham Lincoln most famous quote?

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

Who said the quote it is not the years in your life?

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln is credited with this aphorism, but I cannot find it in his collected works.

What does it's not the years in your life that count?

It is not the years in your life that count – it is the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, has been credited with that inspirational quote, but it's not clear who actually said it.