Quotes About Maturity

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s'pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain't a boy any longer.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.