Quotes About Maturity

But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none?

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one thatll get you home earlier.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.