Quotes About Maturity

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.

We mature not by years, but by stories…" Cinderella In Focus:Cindy's Secret

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

I'm all groan up in America.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.