Growing old quotes

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
-- Gloria Pitzer

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
-- Martha Graham

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

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
-- Doris Lessing

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
-- Anouk Aimee

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

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
-- Jennifer Yane

Old age is no place for sissies.
-- Bette Davis

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
-- Ruth Gordon

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
-- Katharine Hepburn

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
-- Betty Smith

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
-- Sophia Loren

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
-- Alice Walker

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
-- Phyllis Bottome

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
-- Faith Baldwin

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?
-- Katherine Graham

Being old isn't something to deny, hush up or apologise for. It's something to celebrate.
-- Virginia Ironside

Growing old is a journey best undertaken with a sense of humour and curiosity.
-- Irma Kurtz

“Old” is not a dirty word. Old age is not an illness. It took a long time and a lot of hard work to get here and I see no reason to apologise for my arrival.
-- Irma Kurtz

You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again!
-- Bonnie Prudden

If you'd like to be part of the Growing Old Disgracefully network for older women, click here to find out more about us.