Quotes About Maturity

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.

Friends and wine should be old.

The ripest fruit first falls.

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood.

Growth is not concerned with itself.

Good things are not done in a hurry.

Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.

The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.

An old head upon young shoulders.

Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

The child is father to the man.

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.

As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

I worked in a factory for six months and was a firefighter in Cookeville for several years. They paid my tuition, and I got a lot of life experience during that time that helped me grow up.