Quotes About Maturity

As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

the count left, murmuring these verses from Pindar: 'Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit … Happy the vintager who picks it after watching it slowly mature.

old age is boastful; and it is pardonable for old men to praise themselves when others no longer do it.

Youth is the flower of which love is the fruit; Happy the gatherer who picks it after watching it slowly mature.

On ne devient pas adulte, on finit adulte.

Although man resembles the animals in several respects, one feature is peculiar to him alone: he perfects himself and they do not.

EÈ™ti dement omule. Ai dat o arm? înc?rcat? unor copii. - ÎncetaÈ›i s?-i mai trataÈ›i ca pe niÈ™te copii È™i vor înceta s? se mai comporte ca niÈ™te copii. Cine dracu' sunteÈ›i voi s-o faceÈ›i pe supraveghetorii?... ExplicaÈ›i-le cum funcÈ›ioneaz? arma înc?rcat?... L?saÈ›i-i s? creasc?. Este momentul.

I can't forget what it's done to you. I've been thinking of nothing else since it happened. It's gone forever, that funny young, lost look I loved won't ever come back. I killed that when I told you about Rebecca. It's gone. In a few hours, you've grown so much older.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty— they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. MARTIN BUXBAUM

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

If she doesn't make a move soon, they're all going to pass her by and she'll still be a child, afraid to leave her room, afraid to grow up.