Quotes about Maturity
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
— Napoleon Hill
A man is no bigger than the things which he allows to annoy him.
— Napoleon Hill
In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.
— Catherine Marshall
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
— Billy Graham
I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.
— Anne Lamott
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
— Kathleen Norris
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
— CS Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
— CS Lewis
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
— Carl Jung
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
— George Bernard Shaw