Quotes About Growth

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a bad traveling companion.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.