Quotes about Maturity

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.