Quotes About Maturity

Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he's ready, no matter how young he is, and you can't start too young to learn how to be careful.

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

Marriage is like a fine aged wine. It has to endure its Time of Fermenting before its full-bodied Flavor and Bouquetcan be appreciate.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.