Quotes About Maturity

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

Precocious children rarely grow up good). My aunts and uncles thought me quite atrocious. For using words more adult than I should

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.