Quotes About Maturity

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.

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

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

Life isn't about getting more. It's about becoming more.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.