Quotes About Growth

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

We all have souls of different ages

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Focus on quality and ease of movement, not on the age a milestone is accomplished.

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.