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There are so many life lessons we learn when growing up. And, in truth, we never stop to grow up. Another important thing that growing up is more than getting older and becoming an adult. Profound growing up quotes will remind us to make a difference in the world, find out who we are, and live the life we imagined as children.

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Best Growing Up Quotes

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. — Tom Stoppard

Experience is a hard teacher, it gives the test first and the lessons after. — Vernon Sanders

As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot. — Ray Kroc

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. — Sylvia Plath

Who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — e. e. cummings

The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey Stengel

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. — Tyler Perry

Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker

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

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

Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun. — Nina Dobrev

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor Frankl

For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don’t think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young. — Jameela Jamil

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

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. — Shunryu Suzuki

When you’re growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction. — Rob Gronkowski

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

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I’ve become. I’ve taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I’ve become those things. — Marilyn Manson

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. — Mary Engelbreit

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. — Walt Disney

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. — Nikki Giovanni

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

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. — W. Edwards Deming

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

I make mistakes growing up. I’m not perfect; I’m not a robot. — Justin Bieber

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

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. — Denis Waitley

Inspirational Growing up Quotes About Change and Life

• When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. — Tom Robbins
• Every hour proves to us that change and decay are written upon all things earthly. As surely will the proudest monuments of human labor pass away, as the morning mist from among the hills. If we can look upon the past and behold the ravages of time, or on the present and not feel his powerful influence upon ourselves and the things around us, then indeed will our future be dark and cheerless. — Charles Lanman
• Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. — Cassandra Clare
• If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry, it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. — John A. Simone, Sr.
• Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. — Noam Chomsky
• Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it. — Kim Harrison
• There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place. — Washington Irving
• Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there’s nothing more exciting. — Elliot Knight
• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf
• When you are through changing, you are through. — Bruce Barton
• Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I’m always going to stay humble. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
• Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what’s to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn’t have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves… for growing up. — The Wonder Years
• 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
• When you’re growing up, you realize you’ve got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders. — Nadia Comaneci
• 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
• Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. — John Kenneth Galbraith
• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. — Mark Twain
• You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. — George Bernard Shaw
• ’Oh,’ she thought, ‘How horrible it is that people have to grow up and marry and change!’ — L.M. Montgomery
• I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her an intelligent, strong, and responsible woman. — Isaiah Mustafa

Top Growing Up Quotes To Gain New Perspective

• Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. — Kenny Rogers
• Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word… but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. — James Howe
• Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples. — J.M. Barrie
• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. — Confucius
• Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. — Michael Caine
• I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. — Maya Angelou
• Growth is the only evidence of life. — John Henry Newman
• I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way. — Allen Iverson
• Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do. — Judd Nelson
• I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible – but that’s what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes. — Lindsay Lohan
• I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. — Louisa May Alcott
• I think, as you’re growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you’re an adult. You’re ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don’t feel things more as we get older. — Spike Jonze
• 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
• Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. — M.J. Croan
• I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. — Jodi Picoult
• 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
• 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
• If your gonna screw up, do it while you’re young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back. — Winston Groom
• In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they’re a man or a woman and that’s it, but that’s just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions. — Orlando McGuire
• The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes naturally, no one wants to live any other way.— Judith Martin
• I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed. — Bill Watterson
• Raising a daughter is like growing a flower. You give it your best. If you’ve done your job well, she blooms. And after that, she leaves.

Famous Growing Up Quotes to Inspire Big Adventure

• 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
• Most of us won’t see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We’ll be different. We’ll be adults–cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes. — Lauren Oliver
• No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are. — Aimee Teegarden
• 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
• 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
• Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up. — Daniel Black
• 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
• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. — C.S. Lewis
• Sometimes we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. — James Dobson
• This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible. — Michelle Tea
• 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
• Until you’re grown-up they send you to reform school. After you’re grown-up they send you to the penitentiary. — Ernest Hemingway
• We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. — May Lamberton Becker
• We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up? — Helen Hollick
• You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore
• 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
• Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. — Ezra Taft Benson
• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. — Kurt Vonnegut
• As they get older, our daughters become more and more like us too. — Amy Newmark

Motivational Quotes About Growing Up

• 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.
• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again. — C.S. Lewis
• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. — Anne Frank
• 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
• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson
• We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. — Stacia Tauscher
• 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, The Name of the Wind
• While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. — Angela Schwindt
• Growing up, we are told many things; one being, you can do anything. But somewhere between child and adult, things change. — Julie Hebert, Why Not You
• A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. — Chinese Proverb
• Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. — William Stafford
• The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother. — Sharon Olds
• A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy C. Fisher
• To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. — Euripides
• No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom. — Cardinal Mermillod
• Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up. — Colleen Parro
• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller
• As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother. — Prince William
• You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end, she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls. — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
• My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges, and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. — Jodi Picoult
• Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. — Allie Condie, Matched
• The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a contribution, and hopefully going far beyond you in the scope of his life. — Steve Biddulph

Growing Up Captions for Instagram

• I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now. — John Green
• Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up. — Bernard Kelvin Clive
• Don’t try to make me grow up before my time. — Louisa May Alcott
• You must pay the penalty of growing-up. You must leave fairyland behind you. — L.M. Montgomery
• 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
• You can get what you want or you can just get old. — Billy Joel
• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. — Mark Twain
• Children who grow up with plenty can learn to give, just as children who grow up receiving love can learn to express it. — Fred Rogers
• One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us. — Virgil A. Kraft
• I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. — Lewis Carroll
• I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins. — Terry Pratchett
• Let’s learn to grow up, before we grow old. — Martin H. Manser
• When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish. — Steve Maraboli
• Age is a necessary but insufficient requirement for growing up. There are immature old people, and there are appropriately mature young people. — Henry Cloud
• Born to be wild – live to outgrow it. — Lao Tzu
• Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework, never finished. — Lois McMaster Bujold
• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Abraham Lincoln
• As children, we don’t get to pick the ways in which we’re loved. But then we grow up, and if we’re smart and prepared and very determined, every once in a while we actually do get the life we wanted. — Oprah Winfrey
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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