Growing up is the term we use for transitioning from childhood to adulthood. It is characterized by gaining perspective on our position and importance in the universe, adequately caring for our own needs, and the ability to effectively communicate our needs and feelings to others. May these Growing Up Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “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.
2. “Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.” Nina Dobrev
3. “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” Russel Baker
4. “When I was growing up, I remember my mother saying, “Your friends are like elevators; they will bring you up or down – the choice is yours.” David DeNotaris
5. “One curious thing about growing up is that you don’t only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents’ and grandparents’ lives come to you.” Philip Pullman
6. “I make mistakes growing up. I’m not perfect; I’m not a robot.” Justin Bieber
7. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E. Cummings
8. “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
9. “Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.” Daniel Black
10. “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
11. “Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.” Beverley Mitchell
12. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” Cassandra Clare
13. “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
14. “Even though your child is beginning to look and act more and more like an adult, he still desperately needs your love, nurturing, and support.” Gina Panettieri
15. “Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I’ve seen that before. I’m not afraid of it.” Thuy Trang
16. “You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” John J. Plomp
17. “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
18. “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” Chili Davis
19. “Growing up we are told many things, One being, you can do anything.
But somewhere between child and adult, things change.” Julie Hebert
20. “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” Virginia Woolf
21. “A mother is a child’s first teacher. We are raising the people who will grow up to influence society and the world.” Marie Osmond
22. “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
23. “If you’re gonna screw up, do it while you’re young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.” Winston Groom
24. “Growing up was certainly not easy for Albert Einstein and part of the problem was the way in which his father’s business would either be struggling or close to failing on a number of occasions.” Jack Steinberg, Albert Einstein
25. “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
26. “One of the great lessons I remember my dad constantly emphasizing in our family while I was growing up was “Use your R&I.” That is, use your resourcefulness and initiative. He taught us that we were not victims of the circumstances surrounding us, but rather masters of our own destiny.” Stephen M. R. Covey
27. ” I’ve found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn’t mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I’ve just added more things to my list.” Taylor Swift
28. “The more solid, sensible, common-sense, loving steps we take, the greater the chances of helping our children become the kind of children we want them to be and wish we had been when we were growing up.” Zig Ziglar
29. “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
30. “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
31. “My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.” Sara Blakely
32. “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
33. “Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.” Taylor Swift
34. “Who we are, is what we believe. As you were growing up, you may have been told over and over that you were good at doing something. You believed it. Similarly, if you constantly tell people they are doing a good job, they will eventually believe it even if, in the beginning, they have doubts about their ability. In essence, we become what we believe.” Catherine Pulsifer
35. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Theodor Seuss Geisel
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