30 Famous Inspirational Quotes About Getting Older

30 Famous Quotes About Aging & Getting Older

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
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-David Bowie

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
-Walt Disney

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.
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-Maya Angelou

elderly African-American couple sitting on the front porch of their home

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.
-Albert Einstein

Now, people are always asking me, ‘What do you want people to say about you a hundred year from now?’ I always say I want them to say, ‘Dang, don’t she still look good for her age?'”
-Dolly Parton

The beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows.
-Audrey Hepburn

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

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
-Muhammad Ali

To me, old age is always ten years older than I am.
-John Burroughs

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
-John Lennon

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

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

You can be gorgeous at 30, charming at 40, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel

I’m like a good cheese. I’m just getting moldy enough to be interesting.
-Paul Newman

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-George Bernard Shaw

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-CS Lewis

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
-Ethel Barrymore

Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
-Walt Disney

Aging is not lost youth, but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
-Betty Friedan

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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-Henry Ford

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
-Salvador Dali

I highly recommend getting older. There’s less tendency to people please.
-Alanis Morissette

Youth is wasted on the young.
-Oscar Wilder

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 heald self.
-Oprah Winfrey

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-Bob Hope

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

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-Lucille Ball

Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to the old.
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Job 12:12

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

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance…
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Ecclesiastes 3:1