Top 100 Gracefully Quotes
#1. Across the moon-pale scar that marred my forearm, Darian danced in dark ink, the gracefully curving edges of his name unravelling into a spill of colour as joyful and haphazard as the promise of stars.
Alexis Hall
#2. When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully
Lurlene McDaniel
#3. Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.
Bryant McGill
#4. Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
William Osler
#5. There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
Aubrey De Grey
#6. With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.
Nicole Richie
#7. If you can't let go of the power you possess, if you can't surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.
Donald Cozzens
#9. Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.
Courteney Cox
#10. I used to move gracefully. I used to know the word grace to the center of my bones. Now I seek it every day and fall short, inevitably, every day. I lost grace.
Katherine Locke
#11. the key to surviving change: embracing it, however cumbersomely, or gracefully, one can.
J.A. Redmerski
#12. 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
#14. That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.
Stephen Kendrick
#15. Instruct gracefully.
Instruct graciously.
Instruct gallantly.
Instruct gladly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#16. I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.
Isabel Allende
#17. Aging is not an option, not for anyone. It is how gracefully we handle the process and how lucky we are, as the process handles us.
Cindy McDonald
#18. Hidden by diaphanous clouds of mist and fog floating gracefully over vales of heather and flowing runnels, she began to dance.
Lawren Leo
#19. They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that is cowardice. Hiding, a form of dishonesty, prevents true community.
Rosalie De Rosset
#21. A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully.
Jas Kohli
#22. Kirk Cameron pulls no punches in his exploration of mankind's greatest dilemma. Unstoppable is a captivating, raw, and candid journey that gracefully delivers hope and poignant truth every step of the way. It's a masterful and timely production!
Ray Comfort
#23. In this room I grew.
So many lessons I learned
Opportunities I gained
Criticisms I gracefully endured
In this room, I made my mark.
Priscilla Koranteng
#24. I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.
George Harrison
#25. The most important thing is growing old gracefully.
Audrey Hepburn
#26. Wasn't learning to lose gracefully part of your training?"
"No," she said sourly. "Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. When he's like this, Miss Lowell," Mark offered from his seat on the sofa, "I usually take it upon myself to stamp out in a rage."
"Must I stamp? Or can I sweet out gracefully?" "By all means, sweep.
Courtney Milan
#28. The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer
#29. Growing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.
Miley Cyrus
#30. Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.
Edmond Manning
#31. Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.
Andrew Zolli
#32. This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.
John Hodgman
#33. Cyrano: The leaves
Roxane: What color
Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.
Cyrano: Yes
they know how to die. A little way
From the branch to the earth, a little fear
Of mingling with the common dust
and yet
They go down gracefully
a fall that seems
Like flying!
Edmond Rostand
#34. We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#35. I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.
Bruce Forsyth
#36. I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny two-seater plane soaring gracefully through the sky. Our great airlines awe me. Yet I know they were not produced in a day or a decade.
William A. Patterson
#37. Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...
Sandhya Jane
#39. Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.
Arlene Dahl
#40. The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
Emma Thompson
#41. The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to.
Carew Papritz
#42. It's natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here's me asking you to please not make that mistake.
Ann Brashares
#43. The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.
Blakney Francis
#44. Receive compliments gracefully instead of countering with a disclaimer such as, "Oh, this ratty old thing?" Try this instead: "Thank you." Period. Take
Jen Sincero
#45. For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.
Nick Flynn
#46. I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
Andre Previn
#47. Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.
Liza Cody
#48. That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.
Miranda July
#49. Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot.
Rudyard Kipling
#50. Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.
Michael Cunningham
#51. I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles ... like Audrey Hepburn.
Natalie Imbruglia
#52. ... she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Louisa May Alcott
#53. Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Aristotle.
#54. When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.
Comte De Lautreamont
#55. Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.
Karlie Kloss
#56. A man must ... not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.
Giovanni Della Casa
#57. There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#58. I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
Cherie Lunghi
#59. I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.
Craig Finn
#60. I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett
#61. If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.
Joe Elliott
#62. It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.
Angela Ruggiero
#63. The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.
Fred Rogers
#64. We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.
Diane Keaton
#65. Lady Miranda gracefully kicked Lady Georgina in the shin. Amelia's eyes widened. How long would it take to learn how to do such an uncouth thing with ladylike grace?
Kristi Ann Hunter
#66. He began to see the situation from another angle. An assignment had been given him. Someone's life, a small set of lives had been placed in the palm of his hand. Maybe he would never have any more purpose than this: to accept the assignment gracefully, lovingly, and do the best he could with it.
Anne Tyler
#67. At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing.
Terry Pratchett
#68. They know how to die-a little way from the branch to the earth, a little fear of mingling with common dust and yet they go down gracefully-a fail that seems like flying!
Edmond Rostand
#69. it seems we've got a mental block when it comes to hypermedia in web APIs. This is a big problem, because hypermedia is the feature that makes a web API capable of handling changes gracefully.
Leonard Richardson
#70. I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
China Machado
#71. I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
Clint Eastwood
#72. To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.
Cary Grant
#73. Snow was the most beautiful thing Amitola had ever seen. It fell so gracefully and drizzled her skin like a cold whisper.
Aishabella Sheikh
#74. Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
Evelyn Waugh
#75. One was tired of everything, it seemed. One launched into enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter.
E. M. Forster
#76. I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
Rita Rudner
#77. Gracefully and gratefully accept the changes in our lives as casually and flexibly like a butterfly does." ~ Angelica Hopes, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul
Angelica Hopes
#78. Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams
#79. People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?
Jeanne Moreau
#80. I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#81. The Indian ... stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#84. Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.
Desmond Tutu
#85. Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#86. It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#87. The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
Henry David Thoreau
#88. Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water - freely ye have given, freely ye shall receive.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#89. I toss pretty words up in the air and if I am lucky, they will fall gracefully upon my pages-nancy b. brewr
Nancy B. Brewer
#90. The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, more of a ragged slot, dirty yellow. And you'll see that the white of a goat's eye is all black.
Eugene Marten
#91. I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.
Danielle Steel
#92. [I]t would be a niceness that was enforced leniently, patiently and gracefully, with the sort of unflappable self-certainty [they] couldn't help displaying when all its statistics proved that it really was doing the right thing.
Iain M. Banks
#93. You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.
Malcolm Gladwell
#94. I never say never to anything. I don't really think it would be for me, but I never put limitations on myself. Part of getting older is acceptance, though, so I'd like to think I'll age gracefully. But if other women get confi dence from having surgery, then I would never judge.
Donna Air
#95. I learned how to do that from him, how to use a knife
gracefully like it's an extension of my limb.
I just use it differently.
J.M. Darhower
#96. Remember, the things with which we choose to surround ourselves tell our story. Let's hope it's not "I choose to live in the past," or "I can't finish the projects I start." Instead, let's aim for something like, "I live lightly and gracefully, with only the objects I find functional or beautiful.
Francine Jay
#97. I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those who did bad things in a good way- gracefully, effortlessly- and those bumblers who bumbled their way through life.
Brock Clarke
#98. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you
Jack Kornfield
#99. The ocean lives and wanders free, happily to flow gracefully with the wind.
J. Kahele
#100. I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.
Elton John
