86 Inspirational Quotes for 50-Year-Old Women

Written by Anja

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Growing old can be a tough reality to deal with in our current society. As a woman, you may be worried about losing your looks, your influence, and your money. So how can you succeed at aging gracefully?

About Attitude

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.” – Thomas Browne
“You need to be comfortable with you. Stop worrying about the couple in the corner who may or may not be looking at you funny.” – Willow Cross, Getting Over It
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” – Paulo Coelho
“When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.” – Marty Buccella
“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
“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
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.” – Anonymous
“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” – Logan Pearsall Smith
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
“People think my life has been tough, but I think it has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize it’s not what happens, but how you deal with it.” – Tina Turner
“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
“The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” – William Wordsworth
“Don’t accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.” – Valerie Harper

About Aging

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.” – Jonathan Swift
“The best thing about being over 70 is being over 70.” – Helen Mirren
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!” – Anna Kournikova
“You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.” – Mitch Albom
“Whatever a man’s age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.” – Mark Twain
“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” – Brian Rathbone, Regent
“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” – Larry Lorenzoni
“You’re only as old as you feel.” – Anonymous
“I never think about age. I believe your age is totally how you feel. I’ve seen women of 35 who are old and people of 75 who are young. As long as I look after myself physically, mentally and emotionally, I’ll stay young.” – Joan Collins
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” – John Barrymore
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain
“It’s wonderful to know you’re aging, because that means you’re still on the planet, right?” – Goldie Hawn
“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
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan
“When you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you…If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. That’s the ultimate test of how you have lived your life.” – Warren Buffett
“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” – Ann Landers
“From my perspective, there’s no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you’re lucky! The alternative is death.” – Drew Barrymore

About Physical Changes

“I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.” – 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
“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
“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
“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
“My face carries all my memories. Why would I erase them?” – Diane Von Furstenberg
“As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.” – Lauren Klarfeld
“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.” – Eartha Kitt
“It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit.” – Elizabeth Lesser

Funny Inspirational Quotes

“I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody.” – George Burns (at 100 years)
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.” – Lucille Ball
“I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.” – Betty White
“Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.” – Phyllis Diller
“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.” – Bob Hope
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” – Kitty O’Neill Collins
“You’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“There are plenty of good things about being 50. Just ask any 80 year old.” – unknown
“You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” – Bob Hope
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.” – Groucho Marx
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” – Woody Allen
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
“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 have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.” – Albert Einstein
“I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?” – Zoe Saldana
“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” – Andy Rooney
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle

About Looks and Beauty

“I will never retire unless I have to. As long as I’m able to get up in the morning, get that makeup on and my high heels on, and even if I can’t wear high heels, I’m going to do like Mae West, I’m going to sit in a wheelchair with my high heels on.” – Dolly Parton
“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It’s beautiful.” – Lynsay Sands
“I’m not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.” – Danielle Steel
“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
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” – Coco Chanel
“Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.” – Meryl Streep
“I’m a woman that loves makeup and getting dressed up. As I get older I don’t look as good, but I don’t give a damn.” – Helen Mirren
“Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.” – Anonymous
“If I wanted to be prettier, fillers, Botox, and a neck lift might help, but I think I’m past all that. My feelings come out in my face and show who I am inside in ways that words can’t express.” – Diane Keaton
“Looking fifty is great – if you’re sixty.” – Joan Rivers
“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they grow older.” – Anouk Aimee
“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 is the beauty of an aged face.” – James Simpson
“Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don’t worry girls, look like a wreck, that’s the way it goes.” – Jeanne Moreau
“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!” – Audrey Hepburn

About Work and Career

“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
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.” – Casi McLean
“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.” – Stephen Covey
“Age to me means nothing. I can’t get old; I’m working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you’re working, you stay young. When I’m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.” – George Burns
“It’s important to grow old gracefully, and that’s what I plan to do. I am here to stay. I take care of myself, and I have the discipline to stay fit and have good health until I am very old. I’m not planning on retiring, and in many ways, professionally at least, I think my best days are still to come.” – Sigourney Weaver
“Aging is natural, and that’s going to happen to all of us. I just want to always look like myself, even if that’s an older version of myself.” – Halle Berry
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” – Pearl S. Buck
“When it comes to aging, we’re held to a different standard than men. Some guy said to me: ‘Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll?’ I said: ‘You’d better check with Mick Jagger’.” – Cher

Final Words

The more you stick to a positive mindset, the more you are bound to enjoy your aging process. So, don’t let the challenges of old age cloud the joys, wisdom, and confidence of your golden years.

After all, “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain

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Anja

Hey there, my name is Anja, I’ve seen and supported my mom’s incredible transformation in her fifties. Seeing how my mom “awakened” and took full control over her life really impressed me. I got inspired and started dreaming about how we could inspire more people, especially women, to open up and create a second life for themselves.That’s how the idea of aginggreatly.com came to life…

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