Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Americans living longer than ever must save more than ever.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I want to get rich and die old.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Youth should be a savings bank.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I want to age with some dignity.