Top 30 Elderly Care quotes to lift your spirits
1. “The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the twilight of life.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
2. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
– Ronald Reagan
3. “It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”
– Jules Renard
4. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Mark Twain
5. “Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”
– Dorothy Thompson
6. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
7. “The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
– Alan Watts
8. “Respect the elderly when you’re young. Help the weak when you’re strong. Forgive the faults of others before you’re old.”
– Unknown
9. “Our elders deserve our respect and care, as they have so much to offer in terms of wisdom and experience.”
– Jane Goodall
10. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop
11. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
12. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
13. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama
14. “Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”
– Pearl S. Buck
15. “To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
– Tia Walker
16. “Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.”
– Walt Disney
17. “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
18. “Respect the elderly when you’re young, help the weak when you’re strong, and admit your mistakes when you’re wrong.”
– Unknown
19. “Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
20. “Old age is not a defeat but a victory, not a punishment but a privilege.”
– Bernard Baruch
21. “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
– Betty Friedan
22. “The simple act of caring is heroic.”
– Edward Albert
23. “Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”
– Dorothy Thompson
24. “The moral test of a society is how it treats those who are in the twilight of life.”
25. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
26. “Old age is no place for sissies.”
– Bette Davis
27. “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
28. “The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.”
– Doris Lessing
29. “The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
– Elbert Hubbard
30. “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
– H.L. Mencken
