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Quotes About Maturity

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
~ Amelie Mauresmo
Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens.
~ Nicole Kidman
"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."
~ Charles Dickens
A woman's confidence separates the men from the boys.
~ Sanjo Jendayi
Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself.
~ Unknown
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.
~ Helen Van Slyke
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.
~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
~ Margaret Atwood
The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.
~ Martin Freeman
You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.
~ Bernard Williams
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
~ Pierre Corneille
My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?
~ Unknown
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
~ David Crystal
When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.
~ Eleanor Mondale
Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.
~ Nick Hornby
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
~ Rufus Wainwright
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
~ Hippocrates
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
~ Felicity Jones
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
~ Mark Twain
You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.
~ Jean de la Bruyere