Top 100 Betty White Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.”

— Betty White

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2. “You’re never too old for anything!”

— Betty White

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3. “Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you’re ugly.”

— Betty White

4. “My mother always used to say: ‘The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana.’”

— Betty White

5. “I don’t know people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don’t worry about other people so much.”

— Betty White

6. “People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren’t for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.”

— Betty White

7. “It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”

— Betty White

8. “Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.”

— Betty White

9. “Friendship takes time and energy if it’s going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn’t last if you don’t give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don’t take it for granted.”

— Betty White

10. “Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one’s life and one’s outlook is never quite the same.”

— Betty White

11. “I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.”

— Betty White

12. “Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”

— Betty White

13. “I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it’s one passion or a hundred, that’s what keep life interesting.”

— Betty White

14. “Trolls suck.”

— Betty White

15. “If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.”

— Betty White

16. “Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.”

— Betty White

17. “All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.”

— Betty White

18. “Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment.”

— Betty White

19. “Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!”

— Betty White

20. “One thing they don’t tell you about growing old – you don’t feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it’s true. I don’t feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.”

— Betty White

21. “I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.”

— Betty White

22. “Keep the other person’s well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.”

— Betty White

23. “Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.”

— Betty White

24. “If the guy’s a cutie, you’ve gotta tap that booty.”

— Betty White

25. “I really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.”

— Betty White

26. “There is no fool like an old fool.”

— Betty White

27. “I know unless I’m true to myself I couldn’t be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.”

— Betty White

28. “I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.”

— Betty White

29. “Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them.”

— Betty White

30. “People who don’t like cats haven’t been around them. There’s the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.”

— Betty White

31. “You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.”

— Betty White

32. “I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs all the time. That’s my exercise.”

— Betty White

33. “Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.”

— Betty White

34. “We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it.”

— Betty White

35. “I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.”

— Betty White

36. “Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.”

— Betty White

37. “I’m a teenager trapped in an old body.”

— Betty White

38. “I’ve worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I’m so proud of all they’ve done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.”

— Betty White

39. “I have the backbone of an eel.”

— Betty White

40. “Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, ‘Well, I’ll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.’ And it doesn’t work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.”

— Betty White

41. “You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, ‘Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I’m going to hear all the things I don’t want to hear.’”

— Betty White

42. “However, if one is lucky enough to be blessed with good health, growing older shouldn’t be something to complain about. It’s not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.”

— Betty White

43. “You can lie to anyone in the world and even get away with it, perhaps, but when you are alone and look into your own eyes in the mirror, you can’t sidestep the truth. Always be sure you can meet those eyes directly.”

— Betty White

44. “Literally it’s the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don’t want to share your hoogencogles with.”

— Betty White

45. “I’m blessed with good health for which I’m deeply grateful, so for that reason, I feel so good. Everybody else is far more excited about the 90 than I am.”

— Betty White

46. “I’ve always liked older men. They’re just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren’t that many left!”

— Betty White

47. “My blessing is I’m blessed with good health. If I weren’t feeling good or if I didn’t have the energy, then it’s not that much fun. But this way, you can get away with murder because you’re going to be 90 in January.”

— Betty White

48. “During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.”

— Betty White

49. “I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.”

— Betty White

50. “A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.”

— Betty White