249 Quotes About Maturation

Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.

I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

Old age is especially cruel to vain men. Aging and its accompanying iniquities brings physical and intellectual decline and spiritual indisposition, depriving egotistical men of their superfluous pleasures.

As we age, our one great regret is the growing loss of our personal energy. Our second regret is a youthful lack of direction when we possessed physical and mental vigor.

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.