Quotes About Maturity

When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.

You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good thing. When I was young, I knew everything, and everything wasn't necessarily good.

I've had to grow up pretty fast, which is not a good thing.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

In most cases, a year older is a good thing. More wisdom, more experience, and less damns given.

Good things take time.

Good things, you can't rush into them.

I've been through good things and bad things that helped me grow up.

When you're younger you've got all these hang-ups, but when you get to your 50s you just have a good time.

You have to be sensible and grownup and conduct yourself in the right way. I'm 36, this is my 20th season as a professional, I know what you can and can't do, when's a good time to have a drink and when's a bad time.

aveva già raggiunto quel limite di età, al di là del quale l'uomo in divenire deve affermarsi non solo contro i propri umori, ma anche contro una gigantesca chimera del mondo, che gli fa sentire ad ogni minuto, soffocandolo, la nullità del suo lo appena desto.

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

There were too many things suddenly that I didn't understand, and I didn't know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that's not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me.

Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that to your folks. All they'll do is point out how much bigger you are, how unfair it is to your little brother.

You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to act like one. You take care of Mama and Little Arliss. You look after the work and don't wait around for your mama to point out what needs to be done. Think you can do that?

I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.

Experience is a keen teacher;

These fruits are ripe, dipped in fire, Cooked and tested here on earth.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!