50 Growing Up Quotes to Inspire You to Improve

1. “Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.” - Tom Stoppard

2. “When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.” - Tom Robbins

3. “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” - Walt Disney

4. “Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.” - Kenny Rogers

5. “Growing up is losing some illusions in order to acquire others.” - Virginia Woolf

6. "When you grow up, you'll be older but those memories you have as a kid last forever." - Xander Bogaerts

7. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” - C.S. Lewis

8. "That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up." - Walt Disney

9. "Age is no guarantee of maturity." - Lawana Blackwell

10. "It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually." - M. Scott Peck

11. "The trick is growing up without growing old." - Casey Stengel

12. "We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." - Bernard Baruch

13. "A grownup is a child with layers on." - Woody Harrelson

14. “As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” - Ray Kroc

15. "Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun." - Nina Dobrev

1. "Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart." - Beverley Mitchell

2. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” - Cassandra Clare

3. “Growing up, we are told many things; one being, you can do anything. But somewhere between child and adult, things change.” - Julie Hebert

4. "I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived." - Ursula K. Le Guin

5. "It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on." - Nicholas Sparks

6. "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson

7. "It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually." - M. Scott Peck

8. "The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt." - Max Lerner

9. "When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be." - Elliot Page

10. "As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones." - Lauren Conrad

11. “Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.” - Maya Angelou

12. "We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be." - Lauren Hutton

13. "Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up." - Robert Smith

14. "A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder." - Stephen King

15. “Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them — certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. "Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden" - R. A. Salvatore

3. "Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead." - Morihei Ueshiba

4. "Growth is the only evidence of life." - John Henry Newman

5. "One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again." - Abraham Maslow

6. "If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone." - John C. Maxwell

7. "You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety." - Abraham Maslow

8. "The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." - George Eliot

9. "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." - Calvin Coolidge

10. "Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together." - James Cash Penney

1. "Life is about Being & Becoming." - Carl Rogers

2. "The hardest part of change is going through the unknown." - Robert Kiyosaki

3. "Change means movement. Movement means friction." - Saul Alinsky

4. “Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character.” - Amanda Gorman

5. “Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” - John F. Kennedy

6. "Things which do not grow and change are dead things." - Louise Erdrich

7. "Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job." - Adlai E. Stevenson

8. "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." - Arnold Bennett

9. "Change is the healthiest way to survive." - Karl Lagerfeld

10. "Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw