Quotes About Maturity

Time is the best teacher in life.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.

We learn not in the school, but in life

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...

How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.