41 Growing up quotes that will inspire you positively. Here are the best growing up quotes to read from famous authors that will surely inspire you. Being a responsible person to yourself, for others around you, and with the decisions you make are a part of growing up. May these quotes on growing up make you realize the good thing about growing up, be mature enough, and help you become a responsible adult. Share these quotes about growing up with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. - Cassandra Clare
2. Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun. - Nina Dobrev
3. I think people make their own faces, as they grow. - Enid Blyton
4. I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. - Roger Zelazny
5. That's one of the things we learn as we grow older, how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. - L.M. Montgomery
6. Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up. - Daniel Black
7. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. - J.D. Salinger
8. I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now. - John Green
9. That's the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same. Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. You see the faults in everything. Including yourself. - Austin Chant
10. Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework, never finished. - Lois McMaster Bujold
11. You must pay the penalty of growing-up. You must leave fairyland behind you. - L.M. Montgomery
12. You can get what you want or you can just get old. - Billy Joel
13. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. - Patrick Rothfuss
14. Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. - M.J. Croan
15. Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain. - Johanna de Silentio
16. When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in... I’m glad I didn’t get my wish. - Steve Maraboli
17. Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. - Russell Baker
18. I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. - C. JoyBell C.
19. Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up. - Jodi Picoult
20. Growing up is hard. Otherwise everyone would do it. - Kim Harrison
21. When you were too young and naive to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up. - Karen Marie Moning
22. Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest, learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth. - Jodi Picoult
23. You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P. J. O'Rourke
24. I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know. - Makoto Shinkai
25. You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do. - Masashi Kishimoto
26. I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins. - Terry Pratchett
27. It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day. - Roddy Doyle
28. Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever. - Dylan O'Brien
29. You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. - Ta-Nehisi Coates
30. Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be. - Jonathan Levine
31. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. - James Baldwin
32. Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart. - Beverley Mitchell
33. For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34. It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it. - Helena Bonham Carter
35. I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently. - Mattie Stepanek
36. You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
37. One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. - Patricia Briggs
38. Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. - Nikki Giovanni
39. I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot. - Justin Bieber
40. 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
41. The right thing to do is so easy to see when you're seventeen years old and don't have to make any big decisions. When you know that no matter what you do, someone will take care of you and fix everything. But when you're grown up, the world is not that black and white, and the right thing doesn't a tidy little arrow pointing to it. - Huntley Fitzpatrick
1. Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. - Cassandra Clare
2. Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun. - Nina Dobrev
3. I think people make their own faces, as they grow. - Enid Blyton
4. I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. - Roger Zelazny
5. That's one of the things we learn as we grow older, how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. - L.M. Montgomery
6. Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up. - Daniel Black
7. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. - J.D. Salinger
8. I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now. - John Green
9. That's the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same. Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. You see the faults in everything. Including yourself. - Austin Chant
10. Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework, never finished. - Lois McMaster Bujold
11. You must pay the penalty of growing-up. You must leave fairyland behind you. - L.M. Montgomery
12. You can get what you want or you can just get old. - Billy Joel
13. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. - Patrick Rothfuss
14. Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. - M.J. Croan
15. Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain. - Johanna de Silentio
16. When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in... I’m glad I didn’t get my wish. - Steve Maraboli
17. Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. - Russell Baker
18. I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. - C. JoyBell C.
19. Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up. - Jodi Picoult
20. Growing up is hard. Otherwise everyone would do it. - Kim Harrison
21. When you were too young and naive to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up. - Karen Marie Moning
22. Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest, learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth. - Jodi Picoult
23. You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P. J. O'Rourke
24. I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know. - Makoto Shinkai
25. You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do. - Masashi Kishimoto
26. I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins. - Terry Pratchett
27. It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day. - Roddy Doyle
28. Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever. - Dylan O'Brien
29. You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. - Ta-Nehisi Coates
30. Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be. - Jonathan Levine
31. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. - James Baldwin
32. Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart. - Beverley Mitchell
33. For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34. It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it. - Helena Bonham Carter
35. I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently. - Mattie Stepanek
36. You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
37. One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. - Patricia Briggs
38. Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. - Nikki Giovanni
39. I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot. - Justin Bieber
40. 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
41. The right thing to do is so easy to see when you're seventeen years old and don't have to make any big decisions. When you know that no matter what you do, someone will take care of you and fix everything. But when you're grown up, the world is not that black and white, and the right thing doesn't a tidy little arrow pointing to it. - Huntley Fitzpatrick