Quotes About Maturity

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!

Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.

Men, in general, are but great children.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.