We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

No driver is perfect.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.