Growing Old Gracefully Quotes

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

Sophia Loren

Life, Birthday, Death

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

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

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

George Burns

Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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

Betty Friedan

Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

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

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

Andrew Carnegie

Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

"Moving Forward".

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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

Believe, Age, Aging

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

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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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

Life, Birthday, Leadership

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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

Birthday, Children, Healthy

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

Audrey Hepburn

Birthday, Marriage, Uplifting

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

Rita Rudner

Retirement, Age, Ears

Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

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

Natalie Imbruglia

Wrinkles, Ideas, Growing

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

Love, Life, Motivational

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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

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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

Moshe Arens

Life, Learning, Mind

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

Dale Carnegie

Men, People, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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

William Wordsworth

I Love You, Birthday, Marriage

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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

Inspirational, Hair, Years

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

Anais Nin

Love, Life, Age

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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

Uplifting, Age, Want

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Birthday, Hope, Heart

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

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

Arthur Wing Pinero

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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