Quotes About Maturity

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

I remember being wise beyond my years when I was little.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

Because of how much I've gone through, I want to say I'm more wise than my age.

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.

You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely.

As I've got older, I've got slightly more fussy. You've got less time; you need to use it wisely.

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

I don't care if someone wants to say something derogatory or spiteful anymore. As I've grown older I've become wiser to the fact that vindictive people take pride in trying to make other people feel bad. I enjoy my life. If someone doesn't like what I do, that's up to them, I really don't care.

Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.

The older you are, the wiser you are. The more comfortable you are in your own skin, the more you know yourself, the more patient you are. I don't sweat the small stuff any more.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

Failure and missteps help refine your character and make you wiser.

Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.