Top 60 Loretta Young Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself.”

— Loretta Young

2. “Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.”

— Loretta Young

3. “A charming woman is a busy woman.”

— Loretta Young

4. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.”

— Loretta Young

5. “Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.”

— Loretta Young

6. “In silence – and in self-defense – I figured things out in my own little way.”

— Loretta Young

7. “I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.”

— Loretta Young

8. “Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.”

— Loretta Young

9. “I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared – mentally, physically and spiritually – for our separation from this world.”

— Loretta Young

10. “No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.”

— Loretta Young

11. “I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.”

— Loretta Young

12. “Success can’t be forced.”

— Loretta Young

13. “When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.”

— Loretta Young

14. “If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”

— Loretta Young

15. “I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.”

— Loretta Young

16. “Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.”

— Loretta Young

17. “I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone. Who’s to be the judge of that?”

— Loretta Young

18. “Just because you want to be glamorous, don’t be a sheep about your eye makeup.”

— Loretta Young

19. “Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.”

— Loretta Young

20. “In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that’s what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.”

— Loretta Young

21. “Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.”

— Loretta Young

22. “I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.”

— Loretta Young

23. “A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.”

— Loretta Young

24. “I can’t imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What’s a home and family for if it’s not the center of one’s life?”

— Loretta Young

25. “I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.”

— Loretta Young

26. “There are no ugly ducklings.”

— Loretta Young

27. “I’d thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.”

— Loretta Young

28. “I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.”

— Loretta Young

29. “I’ve learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.”

— Loretta Young

30. “Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.”

— Loretta Young

31. “As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don’t criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!”

— Loretta Young

32. “I’ve a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.”

— Loretta Young

33. “Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.”

— Loretta Young

34. “If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.”

— Loretta Young

35. “Gratitude isn’t a burdening emotion.”

— Loretta Young

36. “I couldn’t bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.”

— Loretta Young

37. “I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it’s the world that’s changed. Human nature hasn’t.”

— Loretta Young

38. “Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It’s not a gift at all. It’s more of a concoction than anything else.”

— Loretta Young

39. “Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.”

— Loretta Young

40. “In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.”

— Loretta Young

41. “I believe you have to nurture your conscience.”

— Loretta Young

42. “I don’t yearn to be a child again.”

— Loretta Young

43. “I don’t know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn’t seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.”

— Loretta Young

44. “Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.”

— Loretta Young

45. “There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”

— Loretta Young

46. “I was a very wanting child.”

— Loretta Young

47. “What you don’t know intrigues you more than what you do know.”

— Loretta Young

48. “I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.”

— Loretta Young

49. “It’s so important to look relaxed.”

— Loretta Young

50. “I’ve always been scared to death of pain – afraid, even, to think of it.”

— Loretta Young