When you are growing up, it is easy to become dissatisfied with your family and friends. You often wish that they would change or be different. To make these wishes come true, you may even resort to turning your friends and family into enemies so that they will be forced to change for the better.
However, as you grow older, you realize that people do not necessarily change to please you. Instead of focusing on what others can do for you, it is essential to focus on how to bring out the best in those around us who can authentically support our growth.
As we grow older, our relationships with others also change because we can finally see things from a new perspective and project ourselves into their shoes.
These growing-up quotes are some of the most inspirational ones that will teach you why it’s often better to accept your life changes and move forward.
Top 49 Inspirational Growing Up Quotes
1. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” ― Cassandra Clare
2. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ― Anatole France
3. “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
4. “The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.” ― Ellen Glasgow
5. “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” ― Chinese Proverb
6. “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
7. “For either or both ways all minds are always,
8. “Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.” ― Nina Dobrev
9. “Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you’ll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there’s nothing you can do except watch them.” ― Alden Nowlan
10. “Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.” ― Daniel Black
11. “When will I grow up? How long can I stay a child?” – Ayumi Hamasaki
12. “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” ― Russell Baker
13. “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
14. “Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.” ― Robert C. Gallagher
15. “You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.” ― Denis Waitley
16. “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
17. “That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.” ― Walt Disney
18. “Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.” ― Sylvia Plath
19. “People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.” ― Garth Stein
20. “When you are through changing, you are through.” ― Bruce Barton
21. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― E. E. Cummings
22. “Until you’re grown-up they send you to reform school. After you’re grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.” ― Ernest Hemingway
23. “When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.” ― Ray Kroc
24. “Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” ― Faith Baldwin
25. “Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.” ― Louisa May Alcott
26. “Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.” ― J.M. Barrie
27. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ― CS Lewis
28. “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” ― Russell Baker
29. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” ― Mary Engelbreit
30. “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up.” ― JM Barrie
31. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor Frankl
32. “I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.” ― George Carlin
33. “If you’re gonna screw up, do it while you’re young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.” ― Winston Groom
34. “If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!” ― J.M. Barrie
35. “I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.” ― Jodi Picoult
36. “Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.” ― Nina Dobrev
37. “I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.” ― Elizabeth Taylor
38. “Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” ― The Wonder Years
39. “You can get what you want or you can just get old.” ― Billy Joel
40. “Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.” ― Kim Harrison
41. “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” ― Chili Davis
42. “The trick is growing up without growing old.” ― Casey Stengel
43. “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” ― Virginia Woolf
44. “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” ― William Blake
45. “Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.” ― Walt Disney
46. “If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.” ― Mary Beth Danielson
47. “The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.” ― Ellen Glasgow
48. “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
49. “The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.” ― Henry Miller
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