Quotes About Maturity

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

You can't get old without living.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

I believe my past is my strength.

How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?

Mature Woman: Is a woman who has lived her life enough to understand what she wants, and she is confident in knowing who she is without question.

It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.