Age & Maturity Quotes

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Age considers; youth ventures.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Some age, others mature.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.