Quotes About Maturity

For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

I've started to see records as just a snapshot, a portrait of where you were at at that time. And if you're comfortable with that, sometimes it's like an old high school year book picture - it makes you blush a little bit, but you gotta learn to really appreciate each stage of your life and where you're at.

I just used to back my instincts and go with the flow. Lately, I've realised that once you play at the highest level you've got to take that maturity to another stage.

I think an engineer has not matured until he or she has conceived of a product and participated in every stage of bringing it to fruition, if that makes sense. And not many engineers get to do all of those stages.

I feel like we go through different stages of love. When you get a little bit older, love starts to feel different, but you see that love has always been there.

Love is different at different stages of your life.

You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant.

When I started the label, I stopped racing. Even though I have a better chance of getting hurt walking outside and falling down the stairs, if I had gotten injured on the racetrack, people would be going, 'What is this guy doing?' So I had to grow up a little bit.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

I've grown in maturity because I understood from an intellectual standpoint how serious Covid-19 is and all the effects it was having on our society.

Men become old, but they never become good.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.

If I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.