Quotes About Maturity

As you get older, you do try to be a bit wiser.

You can't keep doing the same things and expecting the same results. So as you get older, you should get wiser. You learn to invest. You learn what to invest in. Then you start having kids and life changes.

I'm a father now. I've got a beautiful kid. I'm a little more wiser.

I'm a better artist and I'm a better person because I'm wiser, and stronger and I know who's hip for me and who ain't.

The older you get, the wiser you get, and you realise there's no need to blow a top over things.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

You cannot be a winner without maturity and consistency.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

I think when you're a kid coming out of college, you're just kinda going with the flow. You don't really understand what's happening around you - you're just out there playing basketball - but now that I'm older and I see where the league has come in my 15 years, it's pretty cool to have witnessed it.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

I still have a picture: three cars, big house, I'm standing there like I'm 50 Cent. I look at it sometimes and say, 'Look how stupid you were.' But that made me who I am, and I can look back and see it. I've learned. I grew up. I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and thought, 'No, that's not me. I don't want to be that. I'm a footballer.'

Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.