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Quotes About Maturity

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
~ George MacDonald
Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
~ George R. R. Martin
The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we dont really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, were finally starting to learn.
~ Gilles Marini
We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
~ Tana French, Faithful Place
Some people are boys longer than others.
~ Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
~ Daisy Fuentes
Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.
~ Benjamin Alire Saenz
Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
~ Cyndi Lauper
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
~ Adam Ant
I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.
~ Adam Brody
A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
~ Alice Hoffman
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
~ Amanda Donohoe
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
~ Amelia Barr
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
~ Amy Lowell
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
~ Anthony Trollope
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
~ Anthony Trollope
To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
Slowly you become your own man.
~ Bob Weir
Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.
~ Brad Pitt
Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion
~ Brennan Manning
I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.
~ Bret McKenzie