Quotes about Maturity
I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.
- Henry David Thoreau
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
- Herman Melville
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
- Amy Grant
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
- Denzel Washington
You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.
- Amy Grant
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
- Joseph Wirthlin
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
- Mark Twain
I was smarter when I was 15, 16 than when I was 18 to 26, because instead of caving in to being cool, I stuck close to my convictions and I was rewarded.
- Ted DiBiase Sr.
I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
There is no time of life past learning something.
- Ambrose of Milan
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.
- CS Lewis