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21st Birthday Wishes
• 21 Years Old
When you need to choose 21st birthday wishes, try to keep in mind that turning 21 is a milestone — so your birthday message should be milestone worthy. Fortunately, that's the only type I have on this page.
What makes a birthday greeting milestone worthy? For a 21-year-old birthday girl or boy, this means that you need to pick 21st birthday messages that bring a sense of pride, inspiration, confidence, comfort and joy to him or her. "Drinking" jokes won't cut it.
At the age of 21, it's quite hard to navigate the world of young adulthood. A sense of pride, inspiration, confidence, comfort and joy could make all the difference. Accordingly, choose a birthday greeting that can do it all.
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How to pick 21st birthday wishes
At 21, many boys and girls also have the money and desire to indulge in these activities. This can make hitting 21 a mixed blessing for them, especially if they indulge a little too much.
If the birthday boy or girl can take a joke, select a birthday wish that pokes fun at them (about, say, picking up the bar tab or losing constantly at the casino tables). But pick messages with a light-hearted approach — nobody likes mean-spirited insults cloaked in jokes (in other words, the old "truth in jest" route). That's just offensive — and you don't want to be offensive. You want to be funny.
If the recipient of your birthday greeting is the serious type, the "birthday message" playing field opens up quite a bit. You can choose birthday wishes that are clever, cool, inspirational or sentimental in tone. You could simply encourage the birthday boy or girl to grow up (if you think he or she lacks the maturity of a typical 21 year old). You could also pick a greeting with the opposite slant: a message that congratulates him or her about their mature, responsible attitude. You can even opt for a birthday wish that welcomes the birthday boy or girl to young adulthood.
Whether you go the funny or serious route, be sure to choose a positive birthday message that you would like (or would have liked) to hear at 21.
When I turned 21, the times were simpler, slower...and boooring! Today, 21 is your ticket to a new and exciting world. It's time to celebrate! Happy 21st birthday!
Bravo, you're 21 and legal! Time to throw out your collection of fake IDs. Happy 21st birthday!
Now that you're 21, you've got plenty of catching up to do in the drinking department. Happy 21st birthday!
Congratulations on turning 21. Now you're old enough to pay for your own drinks.
May your 21st birthday be even more wonderful than you ever expected. If there's anyone who deserves a truly special day, it's someone as special as you.
Although you're 21 now, you still can't wait to blow out your candles, eat your birthday cake and open your gifts. It looks like you already have your priorities straight. Happy 21st birthday!
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This 21st birthday wish is inspirational with the right amount of irony to encourage the most jaded of 21-year-old birthday boys or girls to leave behind childish wishes and aspire to more. That's a message every 21 year old should hear.
When you were a kid, you couldn't wait to grow up, be an adult and do whatever you wanted. Today, you're 21, all grown up, an adult and able to do whatever you want. Now what?
At your age, you have the rest of your amazing life right in the palm of your hands...along with a stiff drink and a one-arm bandit slot machine. Happy 21st birthday!
May you live long, prosper early, laugh heartily and love deeply. Happy 21st birthday!
You've just turned 21. Your whole life is ahead of you. Take the road less traveled and stop along the way to enjoy the scenery. Happy 21st birthday!
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You'll find more 21st birthday wishes below...At 21, you have the legal right to drink, gamble, rent a car and get your parents to pay for it all. Happy 21st birthday!
At 21, a whole new era, filled with adventures, mishaps and life lessons, is about to start. Enter with your eyes and heart open. Happy 21st birthday!
Wishing you a happy 21st birthday welcome to a world of drunken nights, lost weekends and wild spring breaks!
Your life is just about to pick up speed and blast off into the stratosphere. Wear a seat belt and be sure to enjoy the journey. Happy 21st birthday!
Wow, you're 21. You can do so much now. But don't do everything all at once. Spread it out — you have many years and hangovers ahead of you! Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! Started making 21st birthday wishes yet? Don't forget to wish for more love, peace and happiness than you and the world will ever need.
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Short 21st Birthday Sayings
Whether you’re looking for the perfect birthday post for social media, to write in a card or include on a cake, one of these brief sayings might be just the ticket!
• Celebrate your 21st birthday in style!
• Have some fun now, you’re just 21!
• Welcome to the roaring 20s!
• Gen-z is growing up!
• I-gen is on the way to old-gen!
• Finally legal — after all these beers!
• It’s time for a 21st birthday blitz!
• 21 in the house!
• Fun, fun, fun — Bobby now is 21!
• Look out world, here she comes! My baby sister is 21!
• 21 and fabulous!
• Sweet 21 will be filled with fun!
• 21 looks great on you!
• 21 and fabulous!
• You’ll be 30 someday!
Inspirational Birthday Quotes
A person’s 21st birthday is a great time to share an inspirational message that lets them know how much you love them or how proud you are.
• I have always looked up to you and am so proud of the person you have become. It’s a blessing to have you in my life.
• With all you’ve been through, you persevered and moved forward. Here you are, passing this milestone birthday, stronger than ever. You inspire me.
• All you’ve accomplished in your 21 brief years on this earth. I can’t wait to see what you’ll do throughout your 20s and beyond.
• How has one so young accomplished so much? What a role model you are for the younger members of our family. I’m so proud of the grown-up you have become.
• On your 21st birthday, you deserve all of the happiness and joy that life can bring.
• What does life have in store for you? An adulthood filled with joy, happiness and success is my birthday wish for you.
• You’ve so many choices left to make as you turn the corner past 21. Whatever path you take, may it provide all of the happiness and success that you deserve.
• What an impressive person you have begun. I cannot wait to see the trail you blaze in life. Happy 21!
• You are a credit to your generation; the perfect example of what a young adult should be. You deserve all the best in life. Happy birthday.
• Go forth and do great things; I’m so excited to be a part of the life you build for yourself.
21st Birthday Quotes and Sayings
This list of 21st birthday sayings starts off with some quotes that are on the serious side. After all, turning 21 means entering adulthood, so it can be a philosophical time, a time to consider what the future holds.
• “The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” - Muhammad Ali
• At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.” - Benjamin Franklin
• “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” - Franz Kafka
• “When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sending happy birthday wishes can be more challenging than it seems, thanks to those inviting yet pesky blank spaces on the birthday card. After all, how can you put into words everything you feel for your loved one? And how can everything fit in that space?
Maybe all you need is a little nudge — by way of some birthday quotes and sayings.
To help you send the perfect happy birthday wish, we’ve put together a list of our favorites below. Short, long, funny, sweet, we’ve tried to include every length and tone you and your card may be looking for!
So, take some time to browse. Use a quote or two for inspiration, or even borrow the words themselves. No matter how you decide to use them, know that you don’t have to face those daunting blank spaces alone.
Birthday Quotes, Happy Birthday Wishes, and Birthday Sayings
• You don’t get older, you get better.
• Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you. Happy birthday!
• “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” – Charles Schulz
• “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” – Bob Hope
• “A party without cake is just a meeting.” – Julia Child
• “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Dr. Seuss
• “Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” – George Meredith
• “I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I’m one year older, everyone else is too.” – Gloria Swanson
• “It takes a long time to become young.” – Pablo Picasso
• Wishing you a birthday as amazing as you are!
• Cheers to another trip around the sun – happy birthday!
• Hoping your birthday is extra sweet.
• Sending you happy, dancing, confetti-popping, cake-filled birthday wishes!
• The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.
• Just like a fine wine, you get better with age.
• Wishing you a purrrrfect birthday.
• I am so happy you were born, and even happier you’re in my life.
• To my dearest, sweetest, most wonderful friend – wishing you a year filled with nothing but happiness.
• Another year older, another year wiser, and another night we’ll never remember. Happy birthday!
• Cheers to the birthday girl – drinks on me!
• HBD to my BFF
• You’re not old, you’re classic.
• Don’t worry, you’re not getting old. You were already old a long time ago.
• May your birthday bloom with happiness!
• I hope that all of the beauty and kindness that you bring into the world comes back to you in the year ahead.
• Thank you for everything you do, for always being there, and for making my life so much brighter. Happy birthday!
• Getting older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
Birthday Card Ideas
How frustrating is it to be writing a happy birthday wish with a pen, only to make the tiniest mistake? Pretty darn frustrating.
When you choose a design from our online birthday card collection, not only will you be able to send a beautiful and eco-friendly card, you’ll have the ability to erase your mistakes — write and rewrite your happy birthday wishes as many times as you need to before you hit “Send”. Now your loved ones can receive the birthday wish they deserve, free of scribbles.
Start designing today, explore the countless customization possibilities, and schedule your card to send when you need it to, whether that’s in the next five minutes, or five months from now.
Regardless of which angle you look at it from, age 21 is amazing! So if you happen to know someone who just turned 21, don’t let their Big Day get to an end without brightening it with a fabulous birthday message.
And thankfully, our collection of well composed 21st Birthday Wishes below can help you do just that.
• Happy 21st Birthday!
• Happy 21st Birthday Messages for your Sister
• Birthday Quotes for 21st Birthday
Happy 21st Birthday!
• What’s the definition of true freedom? It is turning 21! Have a super 21st birthday celebration!
• You’ve finally walked into the world of real adulthood. I hope you enjoy every beautiful thing that resides in that fabulously exciting world. Happy 21st birthday!
• Hurrah! Your days of moving around town with a fake ID are finally over! Happy 21st birthday!
• The benefits of turning 21 are exciting and endless. I hope you enjoy every single one of them. Wishing you a ridiculously fun 21st birthday!
• Welcome to age 21 – the most fun age in the universe! Happy birthday!
• Happy 21st birthday! You’ve finally made it through a fourth of your life. Enjoy the remaining three fourths to the max!
• Happy 21st birthday! May your skies always shine with the beautiful rays of the sun – today and all the days of your journey on this planet.
• Happy birthday! Make sure you don’t miss all the fun that accompanies 21.
• Wishing you all the joy and blessings your world can contain as you mark your 21st birthday. Have a great one!
• Happy birthday, buddy, and congratulations on turning awesome 21 today! May this beautiful age be the beginning of several decades of happiness and great accomplishments for you.
• Wishing an unforgettably joyful 21st birthday to one of the most wonderful people on earth.
• You are undoubtedly the most gorgeous 21-year-old in the world. I hope you have yourself a super-duper exciting 21st birthday bash!
• The reason why these past few years my world has been more beautiful than it has ever been is because you live in it. You’re an angel to me, my dear. Happy 21st birthday!
• 21 looks absolutely beautiful on you. May your beauty be as everlasting as the heavens. Happy 21st birthday!
• On your 21st birthday, I wish you the greatest treasure of life. True happiness. May God give you an unlimited supply of that. Happy birthday, my dear.
• Your 21st year on this planet is certainly a momentous occasion in your life. I hope it brings you all the joy your beautiful heart deserves. Happy 21st birthday!
• Hurrah! It’s the 21st anniversary of your arrival into this world! Wishing you nothing short of a fantastic blast as you commemorate this special day!
• One is never truly free until he/she has turned 21. Happy 21st birthday!
• Hearty congratulations to you on hitting this great milestone of life. Have a beautiful 21st birthday, year and life.
• Nothing makes me happier than seeing you turn 21 so gracefully. May the bright smile God has blessed you with today never leave your face. Happy birthday!
• May your 21st birthday open the door to your prosperity. Happy 21st birthday!
• Being such a wonderful friend to me, you deserve nothing but the finest…on your 21st birthday and on every blessed day of your existence.
• I pray and hope your 21st birthday is crammed with the guiltiest of pleasures! Have a fabulous day!
• Your 21st anniversary gives me the perfect opportunity to tell how blessed I feel to have a wonderful friend and angel like you by my side. May your Big Day be so fabulous that you remember it forever.
• May the force be with you as you celebrate 21 years of existence on planet Earth!
• Happy 21st birthday! Hoping you enjoy to the fullest all the amazing privileges and benefits that this amazing age has to offer.
• May God hear all your birthday wishes and make them come true. Happy 21st birthday!
• Here’s wishing you a mighty ocean of fun on your 21st birthday. May all things good and beautiful find their way to you wherever you may go.
• Wishing you an incredibly happy 21st birthday! May every blessed day of your life gift you heavenly bliss.
• Yay! You’ve grabbed the freedom you have been looking for at last! So throw away all your fake IDs and let’s paint this town red! Wishing you a very exciting life as a 21-year-old!
• Happy 21st birthday! You are not only the youngest 21-year-old in the world but you are also the coolest. May God never stop decorating your life.
• On your 21st birthday, I only have one message for you. Never stop being proud of who you are, for you are amazing. May beauty and blessings surround you forever.
• For as long as the sun shines, may your heart know peace and true happiness. Happy 21st birthday!
• May this 21st birthday you celebrate today bless you with riches, contentment and happiness beyond your wildest imagination.
• 21 is no ordinary milestone. So from the bottom of my heart, I wish you a fabulously happy 21st birthday. May this landmark celebration lead you to greater heights in life.
• May the happy moments of your life be as countless as the sands upon the surface of this earth. Happy 21st birthday!
• I always praise the skies for bringing you to me. Happy 21st birthday, my darling.
• Your days of being restrained are now in the past. So here is a toast to your new-found liberty to have all the fun in the world! Happy 21st birthday!
• Now that you’ve turned 21, you’ll never miss out on all those amazing 21+ concerts! Get ready to have the fun of your life. Happy birthday!
• Life is too short, so enjoy all the fun being 21 has to offer. Happy 21st birthday!
• Happy 21st birthday! Never feel sad about growing older, for being able to grow older and enjoy life is a privilege many don’t get to enjoy.
• Age 21 is undoubtedly the bomb! Relax and enjoy the exciting magic this outstanding age comes with. Happy 21st birthday!
• Wishing a glorious 21st birthday to an amazing individual! The happiness and fun that inhabit this age are remarkable. Enjoy every bit of this awesome life you’ve been blessed with.
• Happy 21st birthday! You, my friend, are blessed beyond words to see this exceptional age. Count your blessings and have a colorful celebration!
• Congratulations! Now you can enjoy all the booze you want without the assistance of a fake ID. Happy 21st birthday!
• Hoping your 21st year as a citizen of planet earth marks the start of the most colorful and prosperous years of your life. Happy 21st birthday!
Happy 21st Birthday Messages for your Sister
• Congratulations to you, my beautiful sister, on your 21st birthday. The mere fact that you are turning 21 today in such great health and grace really brings a lot of joy to my heart. Happy birthday. I love you.
• As you look forward to a new life as a young lady, do realize that life is a precious gift from God and enjoy every moment of it. Sending lots of love and blessings your way. Happy birthday.
• Yay! At long last, you’re legal! You can now legally do all the interesting things that you’ve always wanted to do! Have a wonderful 21st birthday my sweet sister.
• Being 21 is one of the most exciting chapters in a person’s life. I hope you realize how lucky you are and enjoy this special day to the fullest. Happy birthday, sis.
Birthday Quotes for 21st Birthday
• If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it. Elon Musk
• Impossible is just an opinion. Paulo Coelho
• Only the paranoid survive. Andy Grove
• Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon
• Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan
• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
• Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE. Joss Whedon
• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
• Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later. Unknown
• The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. Frank Sinatra