Quotes About Maturity

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

With freedom comes responsibility

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

A new friend is like new wine when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

George," said Fred, "I think we've outgrown full-time education." "Yeah, I've been feeling that way myself," said George lightly.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

The longer you live, the more you will begin to understand who you actually are and what you are capable of doing.

I am today what I should have been in the past, however, it was the past that has made me into the person I am today...

Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday.

The most sensible person is the one who knows to put his pride in the pocket when he realizes he was wrong and is able to laugh at himself.