Inspirational Quotes About Getting Old: Embrace the Beauty of Aging

"Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change, and loving yourself."

- Wendy Wasserstein

"Age is not how old you are, but how many years of fun you've had."

- Matt Maldre

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Mark Twain

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"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."

- Sophia Loren

"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

- Dylan Thomas

"Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."

- Walt Disney

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

- Betty Friedan

"In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old."

- Douglas MacArthur

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

- Betty Friedan

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

- Mark Twain

"Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been."

- David Bowie

"You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Aging is not about how many years have passed, but how much life you’ve embraced."

- Sophia Loren

"I believe the second half of one’s life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it."

- Frances Lear

"In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"A human being would certainly not grow to be 70 or 80 years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species to which he belongs. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning."

- Carl Jung

"Every year should teach you something valuable; whether you get the lesson is up to you. Every year brings you closer to expressing your whole and healed self."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"No one ages by merely living several years. You will age by deserting your opinions. Years may give you wrinkles but giving up your enthusiasm will wrinkle your soul."

- Samuel Ullman

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

- Henry Ford

"Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one’s bones and cragginess of one’s once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it."

- Maya Angelou

"Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!"

- Ingrid Bergman

"If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life."

- Margaret Mead

"My physical body may be less efficient and less beautiful in old age. But God has given me an enormous compensation: my mind is richer my Soul is broader and my wisdom is at a peak. I am so happy with the riches of my advanced peak age that, contrary to Faust, I would not wish to return to youth."

- Robert Muller

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. When we are young, we have the face and figure God gave us. We did nothing to earn our good looks. But as we get older, character becomes etched on our face. Beautiful old people are works of art. Like a white candle in a holy place, so it the beauty of an aged face."

- James Simpson

"The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind."

- William Wordsworth

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

- Robert Browning

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

- George Burns

"Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating."

- Leo Buscaglia

"I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is ‘anti.’ Aging is as natural as a baby’s softness and scent. Aging is human evolution in its pure form."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."

- Albert Einstein

"Aging isn’t about getting old it’s about LIVING… Learning that you can age well, will actually help you to age better… let’s start celebrating and living an engaged life, and stop punishing ourselves for not looking a certain way, and instead holding ourselves accountable for actually taking care of ourselves inside first, knowing the results on the exterior will be a shining side effect."

- Cameron Diaz

"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."

- Edith Wharton

"I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be aging – I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am aging – lucky, lucky me!"

- Sharon Stone

"It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit."

- Elizabeth Lesser

"I love living. I love that I’m alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn’t wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did."

- Maya Angelou

"Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, our education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves."

- George E. Vaillant

"I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun."

- Virginia Woolf

"With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?"

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young."

- Maeve Binchy

"We don’t grow older, we grow riper."

- Pablo Picasso

"Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been."

- Jimmy Buffett

"Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional!"

- Walt Disney

"Ageing is just another word for living."

- Cindy Joseph

"I’m baffled that anyone might not think women get more beautiful as they get older. Confidence comes with age, and looking beautiful comes from the confidence someone has in themselves."

- Kate Winslet

"Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest."

- Marilyn Ferguson

"Your 40s are good. Your 50s are great. Your 60s are fab. And 70 is f*@king awesome!"

- Helen Mirren

"Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older."

- Louise Hay

"Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"We are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being."

- Deepak Chopra

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

- Franz Kafka

"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."

- Pearl S. Buck

"The trouble is, when a number—your age—becomes your identity, you’ve given away your power to choose your future."

- Richard J. Leider

"It annoys me when people say, ‘Even if you’re old, you can be young at heart!’ Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good. What’s wrong with being old at heart, I’d like to know? Wouldn’t you like to be loved by people whose hearts have practiced loving for a long time?"

- Susan Moon

"I’ve always said that I will never let an old person into my body. That is, I don’t believe in ‘thinking’ old. Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older."

- William Lyon Phelps

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Life is an adventure. And I'm always looking forward to that next adventure."

- Angela Bassett

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."

- Susan B. Anthony

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

"Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."

- Keith Richards

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter."

- Satchel Paige

"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional."

- Walt Disney

"You don’t stop laughing when you grow old. You grow old when you stop laughing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Age is not how old you are but how many years of fun you’ve had."

- Matt Maldre

"Aging is not about losing beauty but gaining a deeper appreciation for it."

- Eva Longoria

"The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been."

- Madeleine L’Engle

"My belief is that it’s a privilege to get older—not everybody gets to get older."

- Cameron Diaz

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"No one is as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They’re a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart."

- Drew Barrymore

"There’s no such thing as aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty."

- Céline Dion

"It’s a great thing, getting older. You are who you are; you say what you mean."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Getting older makes you more alive. More vitality, more interest, more intelligence, more grace, more expansion."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"If you are happy and calm, you will hardly experience the pressure that comes with age."

- Plato

"Old age is an opportunity like youthfulness, although in a different dress. As the evening lights fade away, the sky shines with invisible stars during daytime."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Looking back at your life, you will realize that love was the answer to everything."

- Ray Bradbury

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

- William Shakespeare

"Your wrinkles are merely a mark where your smile have been."

- Mark Twain

"Your skin is marked with wrinkle lines of life, put there by laughter and love, tears, and suffering; and it’s beautiful."

- Lynsay Sands

"You should not complain about aging. It is a honor and a privilege that many don’t enjoy."

- Mark Twain

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."

- Ausonius

"The only way to triumph over aging is to be kind, hopeful, reverent and cheerful."

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"You are not old until regrets take your dreams’ place."

- John Barrymore

"Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them."

- Anna Magnani

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."

- English Proverb

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

- Mark Twain

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

- John Lennon

"Aging has a wonderful beauty, and we should have respect for that."

- Eartha Kitt

"Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have."

- Cicely Tyson

"Aging is just another word for living."

- Cindy Joseph

"Aging is not an option, not for anyone. It is how gracefully we handle the process and how lucky we are, as the process handles us."

- Cindy McDonal

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's not how old you are. It's how you are old."

- Jules Renard

"One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

- General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

- Fred Astaire

"Youth has no age."

- Pablo Picasso

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

- Groucho Marx

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

- Satchel Paige

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

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"We turn not older with years but newer every day."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Jeanne Moreau

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

- Elizabeth Arden

"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

- Winston Churchill

"We are always the same age inside."

- Gertrude Stein

"It matters not how long we live but how."

- Philip James Bailey

"The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present and future."

- Edith Pearlman

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Old age comes with its challenges and limitations, but despite them, we can have fulfilling latter years."

- Billy Graham

"For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest."

- Hasidic saying

"Some people age and grow wise, while others become stubborner."

- Josh Billings

"There’s another part of aging that is wonderful and has its own beauty… Which is how you see the way the stories turn out with peoples’ lives."

- Erica Jong

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."

- Maggie Kuhn

"I’m a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome – because you get more practice."

- Zooey Deschanel

"I don’t mind being older. I’m proud of my age. I’ve achieved a lot … Isn’t it strange that now we’re living longer, we have so much less respect for old age?"

- Jerry Hall

"That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face."

- Frances McDormand

"I’m just getting older and better."

- Neal Schon

"It’s an epitome of life. The first half consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

- Mark Twain

"By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it."

- George Burns

"I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward."

- Mary Sarton

"One of the reasons people get old—lose their aliveness—is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff."

- Richard Leider

"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."

- Ronald Reagan

"As I age, I listen less to what people have to say, and look more at what they are up to."

- Andrew Carnegie

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."

- Fay Weldon

"When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day."

- Marty Buccella

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

- Tom Stoppard

"Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese."

- Luis Buñuel

"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."

- Joan Collins

"Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese."

- Luis Bunuel

"Age is something that doesn't matter... unless you are a cheese!"

- Billie Burke

"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen."

- Brigitte Bardot

"When we were small children, we all played dress-up and everybody had a good time. So why stop?"

- Iris Apfel

"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."

- Leon Trotsky

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."

- Kitty O’Neill Collins

"Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative."

- Maurice Chevalier

"I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere."

- George Burns

"There is still no cure for the common birthday."

- John Glenn

"Old age is always 15 years older than I am."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."

- Ogden Nash

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."

- Larry Lorenzoni

"I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap."

- Bob Hope

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

- Euripides

"When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast."

- Winston Churchill

"I’m getting older, so I’m quieting down a bit."

- Steve Coogan

"One should never be the oldest thing in one's house."

- Patsy Stone

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."

"It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle."

"Age is simply the number of years the world has been enjoying you!"

"It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle."

"I'm not getting older, I'm becoming a classic."

- Unknown

"I don’t let my age define me, but the side effects are getting harder to ignore."