Quotes About Maturity

The Prescott fight made me change from a boy to a man: it took me out of my comfort zone because when you lose a fight, you look at the mistakes and everything. That is what happened. I've changed from a boy to a man.

When I look at character artistes, they begin after 40. For instance, Boman Irani took up his first film after he was 40. Since I too, am in my 40s, I think I am finally getting to be in my zone.

I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my class - Zoology Honours batch 92 - was 18, and I was often treated like a kid.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality-a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow.

Unless a man has been kicked around a little, you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of 'not going'!

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.

Few people know how to be old.

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.

An old codger, rampant, and still learning.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

Every man who has lived his life to the full should, by the time his senior years are reached, have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves

Growing old - it's not nice, but it's interesting.

You're only young once, but you can always be immature.

We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.