Quotes About Maturity

Never give up but never forget to grow up.

Learning is a life time process, but there comes a time when you have to stop adding and start updating.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them...

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.

At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.