Quotes About Maturity

Seldom does an individual enter upon highly creative effort in any field of endeavor before the age of forty. The average man reaches the period of his greatest capacity to create between forty and sixty

Life is too short and there is too much constructive work to be done to justify us in "striking back" at everyone who says that which we do not wish to hear.

I discovered, from the analysis of over twenty-five thousand people, that men who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of forty, and more often they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of fifty

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

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.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.

Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots. I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.

To truly hate is an act one learns with time

La mayoría de los mortales nunca llegamos a conocer nuestro verdadero destino; simplemente somos atropellados por él. Para cuando levantamos la cabeza y lo vemos alejarse por la carretera ya es tarde, y el resto del camino lo tenemos que hacer por la cuneta de que aquello que los soñadores llaman madurez.

You cannot understand such things right now, because you're young. But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

How old is the lad?' inquired Barceló, inspecting me out of the corner of his eye. 'Almost eleven,' I announced. Barceló flashed a sly smile. 'In other words, ten. Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.

El tiempo no nos hace más sabios, sólo más cobardes

When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to see it as it really is. You'll be cured eventually.

Old age is the lubricant of belief.

Time doesn't make us wiser, only more cowardly.

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it.

El tiempo no nos hace más sabios, solo más cobardes.

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyse it and judge how to channel it.

A man who could urinate standing up and without help was a man in a fit state to face his responsibilities.

Madurar no es más que el proceso de descubrir que todo aquello que creías cuando eras joven es falso y que, a su vez, todo cuanto rechazabas creer en tu juventud resulta ser cierto.

Il vero odio è un sentimento che si impara col tempo.

Usted eso ahora no lo entiende, porque es joven. Pero con el tiempo verá que lo que cuenta a veces no es lo que se da, sino lo que se cede.