Growing Old Gracefully Quotes:

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Important, Growing, Growing Old Gracefully

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

- William Wordsworth

topic: I Love You, Birthday, Marriage, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Speech

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

- George Burns

source: Joan Collins (2006). “The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great”, Sourcebooks Incorporated

topic: Birthday, Optimistic, Wish, Older People, Growing Old

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

- Sophia Loren

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Birthday, Uplifting, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Birthday, Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Age, Old Person

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

- Betty Friedan

source: "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

topic: Birthday, Strength, Inspiring, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

- Samuel Ullman

topic: Life, Birthday, Leadership, Inspirational Age, Growing Old

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Character, Inspirational Age, Older Man

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Staying Young, Stay In School

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

- Arthur Wing Pinero

topic: Positive, Deep Love, Age, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Jack Benny

topic: Mind, Age, Matter, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Love, Life, Motivational, Aging Gracefully, Forever Young

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

- Confucius

topic: Believe, Age, Aging, Chinese Philosophy, Pleasant Things

The spirit should never grow old.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Wrinkles, 50th Birthday, Age, Aging Gracefully, Growing Old Gracefully

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

- Eric Hoffer

source: Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

topic: Art, Retirement, Nursing, Art Of Living, Growing Old Gracefully

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Birthday, Marriage, Uplifting, Inspirational Age, Ageing

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

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

topic: Love, Anniversary, I Like You, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Speech

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

source: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

topic: Birthday, Hope, Heart, Inspirational Age, Grandkids

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

- Rita Rudner

topic: Retirement, Age, Ears, Old Jokes, Aging Gracefully

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, Wrinkles, Growing, Audrey, Hepburn

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

- Sting

topic: Birthday, Children, Healthy, Good Posture, Growing Old Gracefully

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

- Anais Nin

topic: Life, Best Love, Love You, Staying Young, Losing Love

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

- Pope Paul VI

topic: Inspirational, Years, Hair, Growing Older, Birthdays And Aging

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

- William Holden

topic: Age, Want, Aging, Aging Gracefully, Aging Process

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Moshe Arens

topic: Mind, Life Is, Young, Staying Young, Knowledge And Learning

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Men, People, Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Growing Old, Win Friends And Influence People

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

- George Harrison

source: Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

topic: Regret, Believe, Silly, Performing On Stage, Growing Old Gracefully

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

- Julie Burchill

topic: Suicide, Growing, Sanctuary, Old Hollywood, Growing Old Gracefully

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

- Edith Head

topic: Growing, Today, Thanks, Plastic Surgeons, Beauticians

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

- Desmond Tutu

source: "Archbishop Desmond Tutu announces retirement from public life" by Xan Rice, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2010.

topic: Reading, Home, Writing, Thinking Too Much, Growing Old Gracefully