Quotes About Maturity

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

There is no substitute for experience

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Experience is the highest level of knowing.

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

Some people have nothing but experience.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.